LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5230
Pyrgidium montellicum (Beltr.) Tibell
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | leprose, leprarioid, powdery, byssoid | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.16 (high) 0.32 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| asci: | prototunicate | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 5.5 (high) 6.5 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 3.5 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | dark brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | absent |