LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14306
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | leprose, leprarioid, powdery, byssoid | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | green(ish) grey | yellow(ish) grey | grey(ish) green |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.5 (low) 0.5(median) 0.8 (high) 0.9 (max) 1.1 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | blue(ish) brown (violet brown) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine | dense |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | blue(ish) brown (violet brown) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.2 (high) 1.6 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 1.2 (low) 1.6(median) 2.0 (high) 2.6 (max) 3.1 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | blue(ish) brown (violet brown) | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
| 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: | acicular (needle-shaped) |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 32.0 (low) 37.0(median) 45.0 (high) 54.0 (max) 69.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 1.9 (low) 2.6(median) 2.9 (high) 3.2 (max) 4.1 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (min) 3.0 (low) 4.0(median) 6.0 (high) 8.0 (max) 11.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | [cur] – curved, unciform, falcate, sickle-shaped |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 15.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |