LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13443
Micarea neostipitata Coppins & P. F. May
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | grey(ish) green |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.05 (high) 0.12 (max) 0.16 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | bullate | uneven, undulate |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.07 (high) 0.22 (max) 0.32 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose | subconcave, slightly concave |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | grey(ish) | blue(ish) grey |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (min) 1.0(median) 1.5 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 1.5(median) 1.7 |
| 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: | clavate | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 17.0 (high) 25.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 1.7 (high) 2.5 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (min) 1.0(median) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 3.8 (high) 4.8 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | fumarprotocetraric acid | lobaric acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |