LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 2693
Lecanora conizaeoides Nyl. ex Cromb.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | granular, granulose, granulate |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | grey(ish) green | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) | green(ish) yellow |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent | present |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular | verrucose, warted |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 (max) 1.5 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | grey(ish) | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | yellow(ish) grey | red(dish) grey | grey(ish) green | grey(ish) brown |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | green(ish) | white(ish) grey | grey(ish) green |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | subglobose, subspherical | ovoid, ovate |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 6.0(median) 10.0 (high) 11.0 (max) 14.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 4.0 (low) 6.0(median) 6.5 (high) 7.5 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 12.0 (high) 22.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | fumarprotocetraric acid | usnic acid | unknown/unidentified compound(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |