LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13495
Mycomicrothelia macrocarpa Komposch, Aptroot & Hafellner
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.7 (high) 1.1 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (low) 4.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 29.0(median) 37.8 (max) 47.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 10.0(median) 11.0 (max) 15.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish | greenish brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 15.0 (high) 21.0 (max) 26.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | lichexanthone |
| primary photobiont: | absent |