LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5819
Sphaerophorus fragilis (L.) Pers.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | blue(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | green(ish) grey | white(ish) grey |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 0.4 (low) 0.6 (high) 0.8 (max) 1.1 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | isotomic-dichotomous | anisotomic-dichotomous |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 1.5 (high) 2.8 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | black(ish) brown |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | globose, spherical | broadly ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (median) 9.0 (max) 12.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (median) 9.0 (max) 12.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | ellipsoidal | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | hypothamnolic acid | sphaerophorin | squamatic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |