LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14584
Rhizoplaca bullata (Follmann & A. Crespo) Leuckert & Poelt
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | peltate, umbilicate | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) green | yellow(ish) green |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 3.5 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | bullate |
| [th] lower surface: | black(ish) brown |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 4.0 (max) 5.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly concave, excavate, urceolate | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | grey(ish) green | yellow(ish) green |
| [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: | grey(ish) green | yellow(ish) green |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.3 (high) 2.5 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| 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: | subglobose, subspherical | broadly ellipsoidal | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 14.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 21.0 (high) 27.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | confumarprotocetraric acid | fumarprotocetraric acid | protocetraric acid | usnic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |