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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14084
Wawea fruticulosa Henssen & Kantvilas
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
[th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | green(ish) grey |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.1 (high) 0.2 (max) 0.3 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
[th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | dichotomous – unspecified |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 2.3 |
ascoma: | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | convex | distinctly convex | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose | subconcave, slightly concave |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 2.5 |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | not thickened | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent | present |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | fusiform |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 17.0 (high) 22.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 8.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | cylindrical |
[co] length [µm]: | (min) 1.5 (low) 2.0 (high) 4.0 |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |