LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 427
Aspicilia subdepressa auct. brit., non (Nyl.) Arnold
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Arctic |
| substrate: | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (low) 4.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 18.0 (high) 32.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 11.0 (high) 15.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 9.0 (high) 15.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | norstictic acid | stictic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |