LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13495
Mycomicrothelia macrocarpa Komposch, Aptroot & Hafellner
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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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 |