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LIASlight ItemID: 1908

Diploschistes arabiensis Lumbsch

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Americas – North America (incl Mexico)
substrate: rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified
thallus: cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose
[th] upper surface: white(ish) | white(ish) grey
[th upper surface]: pruinose
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial
ascoma [mm]: (median) 2.0
ascoma: immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: plane, flat, flattened, expanded
asci: unitunicate
[asc] tholus: thickened
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): absent
ascospores: (median) 6.0 (max) 8.0
[asp] shape: ellipsoidal
[asp] length [µm]: (low) 23.0 (high) 29.0
[asp] width [µm]: (low) 15.0 (high) 15.0
[asp] septa: present
[asp] septa: muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform
[asp] transversal septa: (low) 5.0 (high) 6.0
[asp] pigmentation: medium brown, brownish
secondary metabolites: absent
primary photobiont: present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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