LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 3553
Leucocarpopsis devensis G. Salisb.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) | yellow(ish) green |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.3 (max) 0.4 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate |
| asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 16.0 (low) 18.0 (high) 24.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 7.0 (low) 8.0 (high) 9.0 (max) 10.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |