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LIASlight ItemID: 5264

Pyxine rhodesiaca Lynge

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Africa (incl Madagascar) | Americas – South and Central America
substrate: bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus: foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like
[th] upper surface: grey(ish) | brown(ish) grey
[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]: (min) 0.5 (low) 0.7(median) 1.0 (high) 1.2 (max) 1.5
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: maculate | pseudocyphellate, with pseudocyphellae
[th] lower surface: black(ish) | grey(ish)
[th lower surface] specific structures: present
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizoid structures: present
[th lower surface] rhizines, rhizinoid structures: irregularly branched, irregular
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial
ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.5 (high) 1.3 (max) 1.5
ascoma: sessile, superficial
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: black(ish)
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: hyaline, colourless | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre)
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
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: ellipsoidal
[asp] length [µm]: (min) 11.0 (low) 14.0 (high) 19.0 (max) 21.0
[asp] width [µm]: (low) 5.0(median) 6.1 (high) 7.0 (max) 8.0
[asp] septa: present
[asp] septa: transversely septate
[asp] transversal septa: (median) 1.0
[asp] pigmentation: medium brown, brownish
conidiomata: absent | present
conidia: sublageniform
[co] length [µm]: (low) 4.0 (high) 5.5
secondary metabolites: present
secondary metabolites: atranorin | unknown/unidentified (tri-)terpenoid(s), (tri-)terpene(s) | unknown/unidentified pigment(s)
primary photobiont: present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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