LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13363
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi |
| life habit: | 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) 0.4 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (min) 2.5 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | green(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 4.0 |
| [asp] shape: | fusiform | acicular (needle-shaped) |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 45.0 (low) 52.5 (high) 72.5 (max) 90.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 3.0 (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 (max) 7.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (min) 7.0 (low) 8.0 (high) 12.0 (max) 13.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | absent |