LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 15096
Schismatomma spieri Aptroot & Sparrius
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | red(dish) white (pink) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | isotomic-dichotomous | anisotomic-dichotomous |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 1.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | white(ish) | red(dish) white (pink) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | black(ish) | black(ish) brown |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (min) 1.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 30.0 (high) 37.0 (max) 39.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 3.0 (low) 5.0 (high) 6.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (min) 2.0(median) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thin, thinly halonate |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 17.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | erythrin | gyrophoric acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |