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LIASlight ItemID: 2519

Koerberia biformis A. Massal.

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: foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like
[th] upper surface: brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green)
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: present
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: absent
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: present
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: present
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (low) 0.3 (high) 0.5
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial
ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.4 (high) 1.0 (max) 1.5
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown)
asci: lecanoralean
[asc] tholus: thickened
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): absent
ascospores: (median) 8.0
[asp] shape: [cur] – curved, unciform, falcate, sickle-shaped | acicular (needle-shaped)
[asp] length [µm]: (min) 32.0 (low) 43.0 (high) 55.0
[asp] width [µm]: (low) 1.5 (high) 2.0 (max) 3.0
[asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular
[asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless
conidiomata: absent | present
conidia: cylindrical
[co] length [µm]: (low) 4.5 (high) 6.0
secondary metabolites: absent
primary photobiont: present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont: cyanobacterial

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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