LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13945
Arthothelium crozalsianum (de Lesd.) de Lesd.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | saprobic (on decaying organic substrate) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | white(ish) |
| [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]: | (min) 0.2 (low) 0.4 (high) 0.6 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine | dense |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | green(ish) brown (olive brown) |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 14.0 (low) 15.0 (high) 18.0 (max) 22.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 9.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 4.0 (low) 5.0 (high) 6.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | absent |