
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 3643
Mazosia rotula (Mont.) A. Massal.
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Americas – South and Central America | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
substrate: | leaves, fronds, needles – living |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
[th] upper surface: | green(ish) | green(ish) grey |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugulose, finely wrinkled |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 0.8 |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | grey(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | hyaline, colourless |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
[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) 14.0 (high) 23.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | psoromic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |