LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13781
Schistophoron indicum Kr. P. Singh & Swarnalatha
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) |
| [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 |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 0.6 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | white(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 1.5 |
| asci: | prototunicate | unitunicate |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | subglobose, subspherical | broadly ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 6.5 (high) 9.7 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 7.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | thick, distincly halonate |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | norstictic acid | stictic acid | unknown/unidentified pigment(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |