LiasLight

LIAS light – Item Descriptions


LIASlight ItemID: 2977

Lecanora substrobilina Printzen

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Americas – North America (incl Mexico)
substrate: wood – dead, living
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified
thallus: cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate
[th] upper surface: grey(ish) | green(ish) brown (olive brown) | yellow(ish) brown
[th upper surface]: epruinose
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus)
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: verruculose, minutely warted
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial
ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.55 (high) 1.05
ascoma: sessile, superficial
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: green(ish) brown (olive brown) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown)
[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: grey(ish) | green(ish) brown (olive brown) | yellow(ish) brown
[ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: present | abundant
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: hyaline, colourless
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: (low) 1.0 (high) 1.5 (max) 2.0
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: (low) 1.2 (high) 2.5
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre)
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: ellipsoidal
[asp] length [µm]: (min) 7.0 (low) 7.5 (high) 11.0 (max) 12.0
[asp] width [µm]: (min) 3.0 (low) 3.5 (high) 4.5 (max) 5.0
[asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular
[asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless
[asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent
secondary metabolites: present
secondary metabolites: 4,5-dichloronorlichexanthone | 4-chloronorlichexanthone | arthothelin | norlichexanthone | thiophanic acid | usnic acid | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol)
primary photobiont: present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid

[*] 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.


© 2001–2024 by Botanische Staatssammlung München
Impressum · Disclaimer · Webmaster