LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1963
Endocarpon loscosii Müll. Arg.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | grey(ish) brown |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 0.45 |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | absent |
| asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
| ascospores: | (median) 2.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 30.0 (high) 54.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 13.0 (high) 25.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | pale brown | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| [co] length [µm]: | (median) 5.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |