LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14603
Diorygma junghuhnii (Mont. & Bosch) Kalb, Staiger & Elix
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – South and Central America | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose | uneven, undulate |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.4 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) grey |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | dense |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | white(ish) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | yellow(ish) brown |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 84.0 (high) 134.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 29.0 (high) 42.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate | amyloid |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | constictic acid | norstictic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |