LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 143
Anaptychia ciliaris (L.) Körb.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | grey(ish) brown |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | irregular |
| [th] lower surface: | brown(ish) white |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 5.0 |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly concave, excavate, urceolate | concave |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | blue(ish) grey | black(ish) brown |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless | yellow(ish) brown |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 18.0 (high) 24.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 40.0 (high) 45.0 (max) 54.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |