LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5740
Sarcopyrenia gibba (Nyl.) Nyl.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | lichenicolous (in/on lichens) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 0.5 (max) 1.0 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| [asp] shape: | elongate-fusiform, ellipsoidal-fusiform | filiform, vermiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 26.0 (high) 44.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 5.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |