LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13826
Stirtonia macrocarpa Makhija & Patw.
| 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: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) white |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.4 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | white(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | pruinose |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 50.0 (high) 110.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 20.0 (high) 35.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 11.0 (high) 16.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thin, thinly halonate |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2'-O-methylperlatolic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |