LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14119
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – mazaedial |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| [asp] shape: | globose, spherical |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 2.7 (low) 2.9(median) 3.2 (high) 3.5 (max) 3.8 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 2.7 (low) 2.9(median) 3.2 (high) 3.5 (max) 3.8 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | vulpinic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |