LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1984
Eopyrenula leucoplaca (Wallr.) R. C. Harris
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.35 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 13.0 (low) 18.0 (high) 26.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.5 (high) 10.0 (max) 12.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (min) 1.0 (low) 3.0 (high) 5.0 (max) 7.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | ellipsoidal | filiform, vermiform | ovoid, ovate | pyriform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 6.0(median) 6.5 (max) 9.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| host organism: | |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |