LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 3954
Normandina pulchella (Borrer) Nyl.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Arctic |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | lichens, lichenized fungi | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | blue(ish) grey | green(ish) grey | grey(ish) blue | grey(ish) green |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.7 (max) 2.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | distantly discontiguous |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| [th] lower surface: | white(ish) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | absent |
| asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 25.0 (high) 40.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 10.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 7.0 (high) 9.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |