LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5078
Pseudopeltula heppioides Henssen
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | squamulose (squamulous) | peltate, umbilicate |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [th upper surface] pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.05 (high) 0.1 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus) |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: | present |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.25 (high) 0.4 (max) 0.75 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly concave, excavate, urceolate | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | green(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present | sparse |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 3.5 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 3.5 (high) 5.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | yellow(ish) brown |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 14.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 4.0 (low) 6.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | cylindrical |
| [co] length [µm]: | (median) 2.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |