LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14538
Caloplaca megalariicola Øvstedal
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Antarctic – Southern Subpolar Islands, Subantarctic Islands |
| substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | lichenicolous (in/on lichens) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.4 |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) red (orange red) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 3.0 |
| 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: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 12.0 (high) 16.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 7.0 |
| [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: | unknown/unidentified anthraquinone(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |