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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 2280
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Arctic |
substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | squamulose (squamulous) |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
[th] upper surface: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | granulose, granular |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (median) 1.7 (max) 3.0 |
ascoma: | immersed, innate |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
asci: | prototunicate |
[asc] tholus: | not thickened |
ascospores: | (low) 4.0 (high) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | ellipsoidal | elongate-fusiform, ellipsoidal-fusiform | fusiform |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 14.0 (high) 18.0 (max) 26.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (min) 4.5 (low) 6.0 (high) 10.5 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | fusiform |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 3.5 |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |