LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 3732
Micarea bauschiana (Körb.) V. Wirth & Vězda
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
| [th] upper surface: | red(dish) | green(ish) grey | brown(ish) grey | grey(ish) green | grey(ish) brown |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.3 (high) 0.7 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | subconvex, slightly convex | convex | distinctly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | blue(ish) grey | grey(ish) blue |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
| [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: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal | elongate-fusiform, ellipsoidal-fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 6.5 (high) 10.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 4.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent | present |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |