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LIAS light – Item Descriptions


LIASlight ItemID: 3777

Microcalicium disseminatum (Ach.) Vain.

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico)
substrate: lichens, lichenized fungi | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs
life habit: saprobic (on decaying organic substrate) | algicolous (parasitic on eukaryotic algae) | lichenicolous (in/on lichens)
thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – mazaedial
ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.1 (high) 0.3 (max) 0.5
ascoma: sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: green(ish) black
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
asci: prototunicate
[asc] tholus: not thickened
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): absent
[asp] shape: ellipsoidal | cylindrical
[asp] length [µm]: (low) 9.0 (high) 15.0 (max) 28.0
[asp] width [µm]: (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0
[asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | present
[asp] septa: transversely septate
[asp] transversal septa: (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 (max) 7.0
[asp] pigmentation: greenish grey
[asp] perispore, epispore: ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked
conidiomata: absent | present
conidia: broadly ellipsoidal
[co] length [µm]: (low) 2.0 (high) 3.0
host organism:
primary photobiont: absent

[*] 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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