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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 15457
Hypogymnia bulbosa McCune & Li S. Wang
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
[th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | green(ish) grey |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 2.5 (max) 3.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
[th] lower surface: | black(ish) |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (median) 12.0 (max) 15.0 |
ascoma: | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly concave, excavate, urceolate |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
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: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 6.2 (high) 9.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 5.4 (high) 7.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | bifusiform |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.7 (high) 6.0 |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | 2'-O-methylphysodic acid | atranorin | physodalic acid | physodic acid | protocetraric acid | 3-hydroxyphysodic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |