LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 4640
Phaeorrhiza nimbosa (Fr.) H. Mayrhofer & Poelt
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Antarctic – Antarctica | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) | subsquamulose (subsquamulous) |
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] lower surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
| [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] length [µm]: | (low) 18.0 (high) 22.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 10.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | pale brown | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | variolaric acid | unknown/unidentified (tri-)terpenoid(s), (tri-)terpene(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |