LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1390
Cladonia asahinae J. W. Thomson
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Antarctic – Antarctica | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Arctic | Antarctic – Southern Subpolar Islands, Subantarctic Islands |
substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) |
[th] upper surface: | green(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) blue | blue(ish) green (turquoise) | yellow(ish) green | green(ish) yellow |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 0.75 (low) 0.8 (high) 5.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verruculose, minutely warted |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 4.0 |
ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | fumarprotocetraric acid | lichesterinic acid | norrangiformic acid | protolichesterinic acid | rangiformic acid | norlichesterenic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |