LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 2723
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Arctic |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | granular, granulose, granulate | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | white(ish) | grey(ish) green | grey(ish) yellow | green(ish) yellow | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) |
| [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) upper surface: | granulose, granular |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine | dense |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | white(ish) | grey(ish) green | green(ish) yellow |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (min) 2.0 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 2.0 |
| [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: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | broadly ellipsoidal | ellipsoidal | narrowly ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 6.0 (low) 9.0 (high) 10.5 (max) 14.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 3.0 (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0 (max) 6.5 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | arthothelin | thiophanic acid | usnic acid | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) | unknown/unidentified compound(s) | unknown/unidentified xanthone(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |