LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5855
Squamarina gypsacea (Sm.) Poelt
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) | placodioid-crustose, placodioid-foliose |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) green | green(ish) brown (olive brown) | white(ish) brown (beige) |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 5.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) | discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus) |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 10.0 |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| 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) |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 15.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | isousnic acid | psoromic acid | usnic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |