LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 4860
Polyblastia melaspora (Taylor) Zahlbr.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | white(ish) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose | uneven, undulate |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.4 (high) 0.8 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | absent | present |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 20.5 (low) 28.5 (high) 36.0 (max) 38.5 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 12.0 (low) 15.0 (high) 20.5 (max) 23.8 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 5.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | dark brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |