LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1808
Cyphelium karelicum (Vain.) Räsänen
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) grey | yellow(ish) grey | brown(ish) grey |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | verrucose, warted |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – mazaedial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.4 (high) 0.8 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 13.0 (high) 17.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 11.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| secondary metabolites: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | placodiolic acid | unknown/unidentified compound(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |