LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 338
Arthopyrenia viridescens Coppins
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) | white(ish) red (rose) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.1 (high) 0.15 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 0.8 (high) 1.0 |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 12.0 (high) 17.0 (max) 19.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.5 (high) 4.7 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | pale brown | medium brown, brownish |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | oblong, oblong-obtuse | obovoid, obovate | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 4.0 (low) 5.0 (high) 9.0 (max) 10.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |