LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 15333
Evicentia chrysocardia (Poelt & M. Steiner) Barreno
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | lichenicolous (in/on lichens) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) yellow |
| [th upper surface]: | pruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 1.5 (high) 5.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 2.5 |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent | present |
| [asp] shape: | globose, spherical | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0 (max) 6.5 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 0.0 (low) 0.0 (high) 0.0 (max) 0.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | rhizocarpic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |