LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14182
Placopsis aspicilioides D. J. Galloway
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | placodioid-crustose, placodioid-foliose |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | brown(ish) grey | grey(ish) green | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | grey(ish) white |
| [th upper surface]: | pruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 0.5 (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 (max) 5.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 (max) 1.5 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | subconcave, slightly concave |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) black | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) | yellow(ish) brown |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | broadly ellipsoidal | ovoid, ovate |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 20.0 (high) 25.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 12.5 (max) 15.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 20.0 (high) 34.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | gyrophoric acid | lecanoric acid | methyl lecanorate |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | present |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |