LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 4443
Peltula zahlbruckneri (Hasse) Wetmore
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) |
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) | green(ish) brown (olive brown) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 100.0 |
| [asp] shape: | globose, spherical | subglobose, subspherical |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 4.5 (high) 7.6 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.5 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | fusiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 3.5 (high) 4.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |