LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 3228
Lecidea pullata (Norman) Th. Fr.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) grey | grey(ish) brown |
| [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 |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 1.0 (max) 1.2 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | subconvex, slightly convex | convex | distinctly convex | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | grey(ish) | blue(ish) | grey(ish) black | black(ish) grey | blue(ish) grey | grey(ish) blue |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | green(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | green(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | green(ish) blue | blue(ish) green (turquoise) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 9.0 (high) 15.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 7.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | isosphaeric acid | sphaerophorin |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |