LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 15512
Xanthopsorella texana (W. A. Weber) Kalb & Hafellner
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | green(ish) yellow | yellow(ish) brown |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 5.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | bullate | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
| [th] lower surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | red(dish) black |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | hyaline, colourless |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | entirely amyloid (= Catillaria-, Teloschistes-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | globose, spherical |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 7.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | fragilin | parietin | unknown/unidentified anthraquinone(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |