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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5062
Pseudocyphellaria vaccina (Mont.) Malme
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America | Antarctic – Southern Subpolar Islands, Subantarctic Islands |
substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
[th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | green(ish) yellow | blue(ish) white | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 25.0 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose | uneven, undulate | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
[th] lower surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 5.0 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[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: | with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | acicular (needle-shaped) |
[asp] length [µm]: | (min) 16.0 (low) 20.0 (high) 32.0 (max) 35.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 4.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | calycin | pulvinic acid | pulvinic dilactone | unknown/unidentified (tri-)terpenoid(s), (tri-)terpene(s) |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |