LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14859
Menegazzia endocrocea Kantvilas
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | yellow(ish) grey | brown(ish) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 1.0 (low) 1.5 (high) 3.0 (max) 4.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | dichotomous – unspecified |
| [th] lower surface: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 4.0 |
| ascoma: | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
| 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) 1.0 |
| [asp] shape: | subglobose, subspherical | broadly ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 38.0 (low) 40.0(median) 51.5 (high) 66.0 (max) 72.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 24.0 (low) 28.0(median) 34.8 (high) 44.0 (max) 56.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | fusiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 8.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin | chloroatranorin | constictic acid | cryptostictic acid | stictic acid | peristictic acid | isopigmentosin A | isopigmentosin B | isopigmentosin C |