LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14581
Lecanora schizochromatica Pérez-Ortega, T. Sprib. & Printzen
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
[th] upper surface: | white(ish) | white(ish) grey | green(ish) white |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.14 (high) 0.2 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | verrucose, warted |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.3 (low) 0.5 (high) 0.9 (max) 1.4 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex | distinctly convex | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose | subconcave, slightly concave |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | grey(ish) | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | green(ish) black | blue(ish) grey | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) | grey(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.0 |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | blue(ish) green (turquoise) |
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: | narrowly ellipsoidal |
[asp] length [µm]: | (min) 8.0 (low) 9.7 (high) 11.1 (max) 12.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (min) 3.0 (low) 3.5 (high) 4.1 (max) 5.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 16.0 |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | atranorin | usnic acid | paraensic acid C | paraensic acid D |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |