LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 2163
Graphina ruiziana (Fée) Müll. Arg.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – South and Central America | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | yellow(ish) grey | yellow(ish) green | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | uneven, undulate |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.4 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | black(ish) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (median) 1.0 |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (low) 4.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 28.0 (high) 45.0 (max) 65.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 10.0 (low) 12.0 (high) 18.0 (max) 20.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 9.0 (high) 12.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | amyloid |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | ellipsoidal |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 3.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| host organism: | |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |