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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14373
Rhizocarpon mosigiae Poelt & Obermayer
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
[th] upper surface: | blue(ish) grey | red(dish) grey |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.5 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | uneven, undulate |
[th] medulla amyloidity: | present |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) black |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | black(ish) | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 17.0 (high) 22.0 (max) 24.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 9.5 (max) 10.5 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | medium brown, brownish | grey, greyish |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |