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LIASlight ItemID: 3700

Melaspilea granitophila (Th. Fr.) Coppins

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Eurasia – Europe
substrate: rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | lichenicolous (in/on lichens)
thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified
thallus: granular, granulose, granulate
[th] upper surface: brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon)
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial
ascoma [mm]: (min) 0.1
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: brown(ish) black
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: black(ish) | brown(ish) black
asci: fissitunicate – bitunicate
[asc] tholus: thickened
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): absent
ascospores: (median) 8.0
[asp] length [µm]: (min) 9.5 (low) 10.0 (high) 16.0 (max) 19.0
[asp] width [µm]: (min) 3.5 (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 (max) 6.5
[asp] septa: present
[asp] septa: transversely septate
[asp] transversal septa: (median) 1.0
[asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless | pale brown
[asp] perispore, epispore: ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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