LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5814
Solorina spongiosa (Ach.) Anzi
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) black |
| [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] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [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 |