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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 4387
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | green(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | present |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 7.0 (low) 20.0 (high) 30.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | distantly discontiguous |
[th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | irregular |
[th] lower surface: | white(ish) | yellow(ish) brown |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: | unbranched, simple |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 4.0 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | acicular (needle-shaped) |
[asp] length [µm]: | (min) 39.0 (low) 43.0 (high) 55.0 (max) 58.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 4.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 (max) 5.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |