LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 3613
Lobothallia radiosa (Hoffm.) Hafellner
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | placodioid-crustose, placodioid-foliose |
| thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) grey | white(ish) grey |
| [th upper surface]: | pruinose |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 1.5 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) black |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 11.0 (high) 15.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | atranorin | norstictic acid | stictic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |