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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5754
Schismatomma graphidioides (Leight.) Zahlbr.
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – South and Central America |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
[th] upper surface: | white(ish) | blue(ish) grey | white(ish) grey |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (median) 0.8 |
ascoma: | immersed, innate |
[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) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asp] shape: | elongate-fusiform, ellipsoidal-fusiform | filiform, vermiform |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 24.0 (high) 36.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.5 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | roccellic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |