LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14279
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) | white(ish) brown (beige) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | granulose, granular | verrucose, warted |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 2.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened | thickened |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | falcate |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 29.0 (high) 36.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 3.5 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (median) 15.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | unknown/unidentified pigment(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |