LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13414
Rinodina turfaceoides van den Boom, H. Mayrhofer, Elix & Giralt
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) grey | white(ish) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.1 (high) 0.3 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.5 (low) 0.8 (high) 1.5 (max) 1.8 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | dense |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | brown(ish) grey | white(ish) grey |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (median) 1.5 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 3.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 23.0 (low) 26.0 (high) 31.5 (max) 34.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 12.0 (low) 13.5 (high) 16.0 (max) 19.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | sphaerophorin | variolaric acid | unknown/unidentified compound(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |