LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 3831
Mycocalicium albonigrum (Nyl.) Tibell
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | saprobic (on decaying organic substrate) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.4 |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) black |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) | brown(ish) black |
| [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) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 8.5 (max) 10.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 3.5 (max) 4.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | dark brown | blackish brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar | [cur] – curved, unciform, falcate, sickle-shaped |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | absent |