LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1911
Diploschistes candidissimus (Kremp.) Zahlbr.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) |
| [th upper surface]: | pruinose |
| [th upper surface] pruina: | dense |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (low) 4.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 18.0 (low) 24.0 (high) 38.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 15.0 (high) 21.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | lecanoric acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |