LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5812
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic |
substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | green(ish) | brown(ish) grey |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] lower surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 6.0 |
ascoma: | immersed, innate |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | yellow(ish) brown | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 4.0 |
[asp] shape: | ellipsoidal | fusiform |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 30.0 (high) 60.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 18.0 (high) 28.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 (max) 5.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |