LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13546
Mycobilimbia australis Kantvilas & Messuti
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) grey | brown(ish) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | uneven, undulate |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 4.5 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | subconvex, slightly convex | convex | distinctly convex | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) black |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 1.5 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
| 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: | ellipsoidal | ovoid, ovate |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 12.0 (max) 13.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 5.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | thin, thinly halonate |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |