LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 14925
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) grey |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 0.05(median) 0.1 (max) 0.2 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| [th] lower surface: | white(ish) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.5 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | absent |
| asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (min) 6.0(median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | broadly ellipsoidal | oval |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 21.0 (low) 23.0 (high) 30.0 (max) 39.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 7.5 (low) 11.0 (high) 16.0 (max) 18.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |