LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 42
Acarospora glaucocarpa (Ach.) Körb.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Arctic |
| substrate: | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | grey(ish) brown |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [th upper surface] pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 5.0 |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.7(median) 2.0 (high) 3.0 |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine | dense |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 1.5 (high) 3.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [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 |