LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1527
Cladonia parasitica (Hoffm.) Hoffm.
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) grey | white(ish) grey |
[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]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular | subsquamulose |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 1.5 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | oblong, oblong-obtuse | fusiform |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 14.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 3.5 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | falcate |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 9.0 |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | barbatic acid | decarboxythamnolic acid | thamnolic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |