LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 159
Anisomeridium carinthiacum (J. Steiner) R. C. Harris
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) |
| substrate: | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | grey(ish) green |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | uneven, undulate |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.18(median) 0.24 (max) 0.31 |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal | ovoid, ovate |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 10.0(median) 14.0 (max) 19.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 4.0(median) 5.0 (max) 6.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | broadly ellipsoidal | ellipsoidal |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.0 (max) 4.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |