LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1404
Cladonia caespiticia (Pers.) Flörke
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) | grey(ish) green | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.4 (high) 1.5 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | squamulose | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
| [th] lower surface: | white(ish) |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.7 (high) 2.0 (max) 3.5 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked |
| [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] shape: | oblong, oblong-obtuse |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 16.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | falcate |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 5.0 (low) 7.0 (high) 12.0 (max) 14.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | confumarprotocetraric acid | fumarprotocetraric acid | protocetraric acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |