LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13729
Acanthothecis coccinea B. O. Sharma, Makhija & P. Khadilkar
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: | 
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | 
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | 
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | 
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | 
| thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | 
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) | grey(ish) white | 
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | 
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular | 
| ascomata: | absent | present | 
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) | white(ish) | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | pruinose | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | dense | 
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless | 
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present | 
| asci: | unitunicate | 
| [asc] tholus: | thickened | 
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent | 
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 | 
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 12.0 (high) 14.0 | 
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 | 
| [asp] septa: | present | 
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate | 
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 | 
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | 
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | 
| secondary metabolites: | present | 
| secondary metabolites: | norstictic acid | 
| primary photobiont: | present | 
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent | 
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |