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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13660
Caloplaca himalayana Y. Joshi & Upreti
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical |
substrate: | wood – dead, living |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
[th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | uneven, undulate |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 1.0 (max) 1.2 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | red(dish) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | yellow(ish) brown |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | entirely amyloid (= Catillaria-, Teloschistes-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | broadly ellipsoidal | ellipsoidal | ovoid, ovate |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 9.0 (high) 11.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (min) 4.0 (low) 5.0 (high) 6.0 (max) 7.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent | present – spore lumen bilocular, polarilocular, plurilocular |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | 7-chloroemodin | parietinic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |