LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1336
Chaenothecopsis viridireagens (Nádv.) A. F. W. Schmidt
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | saprobic (on decaying organic substrate) | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | lichenicolous (in/on lichens) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.1 (high) 0.3 |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | yellow(ish) red (orange red) | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 5.0 (low) 6.0 (high) 7.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 1.5 (low) 2.0 (high) 2.7 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | pale brown | medium brown, brownish |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | ellipsoidal |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 2.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| host organism: | |
| primary photobiont: | absent |