LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 15502
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) | grey(ish) green | green(ish) white |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.25 (high) 0.5 |
| 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) | black(ish) brown |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (min) 1.0 |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 180.0 (high) 240.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 2.5 (max) 3.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 20.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| secondary metabolites: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |