LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 3373
Leptochidium albociliatum (Desm.) M. Choisy
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) black |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 1.2 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 18.0 (high) 26.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 9.0 |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | cylindrical |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 9.0 (high) 16.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |