LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13687
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | granular, granulose, granulate |
| [th] upper surface: | red(dish) white (pink) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) white (pink) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.0 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.5 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 16.5 (high) 25.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 5.5 (high) 7.5 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | ellipsoidal |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 9.0 (high) 18.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |