LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14190
Zahlbrucknerella compacta Henssen
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | filamentose (filamentous), pannose | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| [th] upper surface: | black(ish) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.065 (high) 0.13 |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 0.35 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (min) 16.0(median) 24.0 (max) 28.0 |
| [asp] shape: | globose, spherical | subglobose, subspherical | broadly ellipsoidal | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 8.5 (high) 11.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 5.5 (high) 7.5 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | cylindrical |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |