LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 15078
Chaenothecopsis asperopoda Titov
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – mazaedial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.19 (low) 0.21(median) 0.27 (high) 0.32 (max) 0.4 |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | green(ish) brown (olive brown) |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| [asp] shape: | narrowly ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 5.5 (low) 6.0(median) 7.7 (high) 8.3 (max) 9.1 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 2.0 (low) 2.6(median) 2.9 (high) 3.2 (max) 3.8 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | pale brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | absent |