LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 582
Belonia calcicola Walt. Watson
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | granular, granulose, granulate |
| [th] upper surface: | red(dish) white (pink) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | distantly discontiguous |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.25 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (min) 2.0 (low) 4.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | acicular (needle-shaped) |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 50.0 (high) 75.0 (max) 100.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 7.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 10.0 (high) 20.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |