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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 453
Bacidia biatorina (Körb.) Vain.
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate |
[th] upper surface: | green(ish) | green(ish) grey | blue(ish) green (turquoise) | yellow(ish) green | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent | present |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 0.048 (low) 0.079(median) 0.087 (high) 0.107 (max) 0.133 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.4(median) 0.6 (max) 0.9 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) brown | blue(ish) brown (violet brown) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) brown | blue(ish) brown (violet brown) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | hyaline, colourless |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 0.8 (high) 1.6 |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 1.6(median) 2.6 (max) 4.0 |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with acuate axial body towards the apex (= Bacidia-, Buellia-, Ramalina-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | acicular (needle-shaped) |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 42.0(median) 57.0 (high) 60.0 (max) 88.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (min) 2.1 (low) 2.5(median) 2.5 (high) 2.9 (max) 4.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (min) 3.0(median) 10.0 (max) 15.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 9.0 (high) 16.0 |
secondary metabolites: | absent | present |
secondary metabolites: | atranorin |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |