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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 15117
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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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) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (median) 0.2 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | verrucose, warted |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.35 (high) 0.7 |
ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
[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) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.0 |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 4.5 |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
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: | (low) 4.0 (high) 8.0 |
[asp] length [µm]: | (min) 19.5 (low) 22.0 (high) 25.0 (max) 28.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (min) 10.5 (low) 11.5 (high) 13.0 (max) 15.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | pannarin | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |