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LIASlight ItemID: 14993

Rinodina elixii H. Mayrhofer, Kantvilas & Ropin

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Oceania – Australasia
substrate: bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | subsquamulose (subsquamulous)
thallus: compartimentized – areolate, squamulate
[th] upper surface: green(ish) grey | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green)
[th upper surface]: epruinose
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (low) 0.2 (high) 0.5
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial
ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.4 (high) 1.0
ascoma: sessile, superficial
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex | distinctly convex
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: brown(ish) black
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: brown(ish) black
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: hyaline, colourless | yellow(ish) brown
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: (low) 1.0 (high) 1.5
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: (low) 3.0 (high) 5.0
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon)
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: ellipsoidal
[asp] length [µm]: (low) 23.0 (high) 30.0
[asp] width [µm]: (low) 12.5 (high) 16.0
[asp] septa: present
[asp] septa: transversely septate
[asp] transversal septa: (median) 1.0
[asp] pigmentation: dark brown
[asp] perispore, epispore: ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked
conidiomata: absent | present
conidia: bacilliform, bacillar
[co] length [µm]: (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0
secondary metabolites: absent
primary photobiont: present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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