LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 3388
Leptogium australe (Hook. f. & Taylor) Müll. Arg.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
| [th] upper surface: | black(ish) grey | brown(ish) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 6.0 (max) 10.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | distantly discontiguous |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
| [th] lower surface: | white(ish) | black(ish) grey | brown(ish) grey |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.8 (max) 1.5 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) brown | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) grey | brown(ish) grey |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present | abundant |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 40.0 (high) 50.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 10.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 5.0 (high) 7.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |