LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 3568
Lobaria amplissima (Scop.) Forssell
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic |
substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
[th] upper surface: | green(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | green(ish) grey | white(ish) grey | grey(ish) white |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 10.0 (max) 15.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | uneven, undulate |
[th] lower surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly concave, excavate, urceolate | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | green(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) grey | grey(ish) white |
[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: | elongate-fusiform, ellipsoidal-fusiform | filiform, vermiform |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (low) 1.0 (high) 7.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | pale brown |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | cylindrical | bacilliform, bacillar |
secondary metabolites: | present |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent | present |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |