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LIASlight ItemID: 14268

Caloplaca arnoldiiconfusa Gaya & Nav.-Ros.

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Eurasia – Europe
substrate: rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | placodioid-crustose, placodioid-foliose
thallus: compartimentized – areolate, squamulate
[th] upper surface: red(dish) | yellow(ish) red (orange red)
[th upper surface]: epruinose | pruinose
[th upper surface] pruina: scarce, sparse, fine
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (min) 0.1 (low) 0.4 (high) 1.0
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial
ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.1 (high) 0.6 (max) 0.8
ascoma: sessile, superficial
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | grey(ish) red
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose | pruinose
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: scarce, sparse, fine
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown)
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: hyaline, colourless
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: (low) 1.5 (high) 3.0 (max) 3.5
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: (min) 2.5 (low) 3.0 (high) 7.0 (max) 8.5
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: brown(ish) red (carneous)
asci: lecanoralean
[asc] tholus: thickened
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: entirely amyloid (= Catillaria-, Teloschistes-types etc)
ascospores: (median) 8.0
[asp] shape: broadly ellipsoidal | ellipsoidal | narrowly ellipsoidal
[asp] length [µm]: (min) 8.5 (low) 10.0(median) 11.3 (high) 12.8 (max) 15.5
[asp] width [µm]: (min) 3.8 (low) 5.0(median) 5.9 (high) 6.5 (max) 7.5
[asp] septa: absent | present – spore lumen bilocular, polarilocular, plurilocular
[asp] septa: transversely septate
[asp] transversal septa: (median) 1.0
[asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless
[asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent
secondary metabolites: present
secondary metabolites: parietin | unknown/unidentified anthraquinone(s)
primary photobiont: present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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