LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 15463
Herpothallon inopinatum Frisch & G. Thor
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | lichens, lichenized fungi |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | leprose, leprarioid, powdery, byssoid |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) | grey(ish) green |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | present |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.4 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| ascospores: | (min) 6.0(median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 90.0 (high) 110.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 38.0 (high) 45.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | chiodectonic acid | confluentic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |