LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5498
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Antarctic – Antarctica | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Arctic |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | grey(ish) brown |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.2(median) 0.5 (high) 0.6 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.4(median) 0.6 (high) 1.0 |
| 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] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) black | black(ish) brown |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) black | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 |
| [asp] shape: | broadly ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 42.0(median) 53.0 (high) 68.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 18.0(median) 24.0 (high) 28.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 3.0 (high) 10.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | norstictic acid | rhizocarpic acid | stictic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |