LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1364
Chrysothrix chrysophthalma (P. James) P. James & J. R. Laundon
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 0.9 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | yellow(ish) green |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 1.5 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | hyaline, colourless |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 20.0 (high) 35.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 13.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (min) 1.0(median) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | rhizocarpic acid | unknown/unidentified compound(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |