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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 1998
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
[th] upper surface: | green(ish) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 4.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | distantly discontiguous |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
[th] lower surface: | white(ish) | blue(ish) black |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 2.0 |
ascoma: | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | subglobose, subspherical |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 12.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 10.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0 |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | vicanicin |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |