LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 15100
Biatora hypophaea Printzen & Tønsberg
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | green(ish) |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.15 (high) 0.35 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 0.45 (max) 0.75 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | subconvex, slightly convex | convex | distinctly convex | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | blue(ish) grey |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | grey(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | hyaline, colourless | yellow(ish) brown |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[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 acuate axial body towards the apex (= Bacidia-, Buellia-, Ramalina-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] length [µm]: | (min) 8.0 (low) 10.3 (high) 11.4 (max) 14.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (min) 3.0 (low) 3.2 (high) 3.5 (max) 4.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 5.5(median) 6.7 (high) 7.5 |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | argopsin | norargopsin |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |