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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 4616
Phaeophyscia endococcina (Körb.) Moberg
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Antarctic – Antarctica | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic |
substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
[th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) grey | grey(ish) brown |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (median) 0.6 (max) 1.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
[th] lower surface: | black(ish) |
[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]: | (median) 1.0 (max) 1.5 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 19.0 (high) 21.5 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 9.5 (high) 11.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | pale brown | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | skyrin (rhodophyscin) | zeorin (hopane-6α,22-diol) |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |