LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 3018
Lecanora xanthosora B. D. Ryan & Poelt
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | placodioid-crustose, placodioid-foliose |
| thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) green | green(ish) yellow | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th upper surface]: | pruinose |
| [th upper surface] pruina: | dense |
| [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) width [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | discontiguous, dispersed (towards thallus periphery) |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | subsquamulose |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | subdichotomous |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 1.5 (max) 3.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | yellow(ish) green | green(ish) yellow | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [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]: | (median) 1.5 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.5 (high) 2.5 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| 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) 6.0 (low) 8.0 (high) 12.0 (max) 14.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 (max) 5.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform | [cur] – curved, unciform, falcate, sickle-shaped |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 12.0 (high) 15.0 (max) 17.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | arthothelin | isoarthothelin | thiophanic acid | unknown/unidentified compound(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |