LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 3436
Leptogium granadillae (C. W. Dodge) Degel.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| 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) width [mm]: | (median) 1.2 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | distantly discontiguous |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | verrucose, warted | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | subdichotomous |
| [th] lower surface: | grey(ish) | green(ish) black |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | green(ish) black |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present | abundant |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (median) 1.0 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| 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]: | (min) 37.0 (low) 40.0 (high) 47.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0 |
| [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 |