LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14020
Diploschistes megalosporus Lumbsch & H. Mayrhofer
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 42.0 (high) 60.0 (max) 65.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 15.0 (high) 21.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 6.0 (high) 12.0 |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate | amyloid |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | diploschistesic acid | lecanoric acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |