LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 3
Absconditella delutula (Nyl.) Coppins & H. Kilias
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Arctic |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) green | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.07 (high) 0.15 (max) 0.2 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | white(ish) | brown(ish) white |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
| [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) 1.7 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.7 (high) 2.5 |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 8.0 (low) 11.0 (high) 15.0 (max) 16.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 3.0 (low) 3.5 (high) 5.0 (max) 6.5 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |