
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 157
Anisomeridium anisolobum (Müll. Arg.) Aptroot
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | saprobic (on decaying organic substrate) | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
[th] upper surface: | white(ish) |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.24 (low) 0.3 (high) 0.38 (max) 0.5 |
ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
ascospores: | (min) 6.0(median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | ovoid, ovate |
[asp] length [µm]: | (min) 14.0 (low) 15.0 (high) 18.0 (max) 22.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (min) 6.0 (low) 7.0 (high) 8.0 (max) 10.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | absent | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |