LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13455
Thelotrema patwardhanii (Hale) Rivas Plata & Mangold
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verruculose, minutely warted | verrucose, warted |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 0.6 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 1.0 (max) 2.0 |
| [asp] shape: | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 169.5 (low) 204.0(median) 227.5 (high) 251.5 (max) 271.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 17.0 (low) 17.5(median) 21.5 (high) 25.5 (max) 28.5 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 44.0 (high) 48.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | pale brown | medium brown, brownish |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | amyloid |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | connorstictic acid | norstictic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |