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LIASlight ItemID: 3772

Micarea viridiatra Coppins

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Eurasia – Europe
substrate: soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified
thallus: continuous, diffuse, effuse | granular, granulose, granulate | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate
[th] upper surface: black(ish) | green(ish) | green(ish) grey
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (low) 0.06 (high) 0.1 (max) 0.12
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: granulose, granular | uneven, undulate
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial
ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.12 (high) 0.3 (max) 0.5
ascoma: sessile, superficial
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: convex | distinctly convex | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: black(ish) | grey(ish) | green(ish) black | green(ish) grey
[ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: absent
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: blue(ish) green (turquoise)
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: (low) 1.3 (high) 1.7 (max) 2.5
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: blue(ish) green (turquoise)
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 | fusiform
[asp] length [µm]: (min) 10.0 (low) 12.0 (high) 17.0 (max) 19.0
[asp] width [µm]: (min) 3.5 (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0
[asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | present
[asp] septa: transversely septate
[asp] transversal septa: (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 (max) 3.0
[asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless
[asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent
conidiomata: absent | present
conidia: bacilliform, bacillar
[co] length [µm]: (low) 4.5 (high) 6.0 (max) 6.5
secondary metabolites: absent | present
secondary metabolites: unknown/unidentified pigment(s)
primary photobiont: present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid

[*] 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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