
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13974
Polysporina ferruginea (Lettau) M. Steiner ex Kantvilas
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
[th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.25 (high) 0.5 |
ascoma: | immersed, innate |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 1.5 |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
ascospores: | (median) 100.0 |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.5 (max) 5.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 1.5 (max) 1.8 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |