LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 489
Bacidia laurocerasi (Duby) Zahlbr.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | subsquamulose (subsquamulous) |
| thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | yellow(ish) grey | grey(ish) green | grey(ish) white | green(ish) white |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | verrucose, warted | subsquamulose |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.4 (low) 0.5(median) 0.8 (high) 0.9 (max) 1.3 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | blue(ish) black | brown(ish) black | red(dish) blue (violet) | black(ish) brown | grey(ish) brown | blue(ish) brown (violet brown) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) | blue(ish) black | brown(ish) black | red(dish) blue (violet) | black(ish) brown | grey(ish) brown | blue(ish) brown (violet brown) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 1.6 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 1.2 (low) 1.5(median) 2.1 (high) 2.7 (max) 5.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | black(ish) brown | grey(ish) brown | yellow(ish) brown | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
| 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: | [cur] – sigmoidal | acicular (needle-shaped) |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 50.0 (low) 57.0(median) 74.0 (high) 96.0 (max) 108.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 1.9 (low) 2.5(median) 2.8 (high) 3.5 (max) 4.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (min) 7.0 (low) 12.0(median) 17.0 (high) 23.0 (max) 28.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 9.0 (high) 17.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |