LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14235
Lecania glauca Øvstedal & Søchting
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Antarctic – Southern Subpolar Islands, Subantarctic Islands |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate |
| [th] upper surface: | blue(ish) grey |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.8 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | subconvex, slightly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | blue(ish) grey |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 3.5 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | blue(ish) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with acuate axial body towards the apex (= Bacidia-, Buellia-, Ramalina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | oblong, oblong-obtuse |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (median) 20.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (median) 4.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 4.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |