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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13805
Nimisia deusta (Hook. f.) Fryday
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America | Antarctic – Southern Subpolar Islands, Subantarctic Islands |
substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
[th] upper surface: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 1.5 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 9.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (median) 5.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | citriform |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 10.0 |
secondary metabolites: | absent | present |
secondary metabolites: | fumarprotocetraric acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |