LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13381
Aspicilia crespiana V. J. Rico
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) | subfruticose (subfruticous), fruticulose, dactyliform |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | maculate |
| [th] lower surface: | white(ish) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | branched – unspecified |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 3.5 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) | grey(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 7.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (low) 2.0(median) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
| [asp] shape: | subglobose, subspherical | broadly ellipsoidal | ellipsoidal | ovoid, ovate |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 11.0 (low) 15.0 (high) 32.0 (max) 45.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 8.0 (low) 11.0 (high) 20.0 (max) 31.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 12.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |