LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13413
Micarea xanthonica Coppins & Tønsberg
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | granular, granulose, granulate |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) green |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.2 (low) 0.3 (high) 0.6 (max) 0.8 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | subconvex, slightly convex | convex | distinctly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | white(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 0.7 (high) 1.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | hyaline, colourless |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | oblong, oblong-obtuse | ovoid, ovate |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 9.3 (high) 14.0 (max) 14.3 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 3.5 (low) 3.8 (high) 4.2 (max) 4.7 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 (max) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | arthothelin | thiophanic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |