LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14912
Sporopodium isidiatum Sérus. & Lücking
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | leaves, fronds, needles – living |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | granular, granulose, granulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | green(ish) | blue(ish) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.9 (high) 1.2 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | grey(ish) |
| [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: | white(ish) | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | yellow(ish) red (orange red) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (median) 1.0 |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 91.0 (high) 118.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 19.0 (high) 25.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | ellipsoidal | clavate |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 10.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 2,5-dichlorolichexanthone | 2,7-dichloro-6-O-methylnorlichexanthone | 2-chlorolichexanthone | 7-chloro-6-O-methylnorlichexanthone | pannarin | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | present |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |