LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5862
Staurothele bacilligera (Arnold) Arnold
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | blue(ish) grey | grey(ish) brown |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.28 (high) 0.39 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | absent |
| asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (min) 1.0(median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 25.0 (low) 32.0(median) 35.0 (high) 37.5 (max) 40.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 12.0 (low) 14.0(median) 15.3 (high) 16.5 (max) 20.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 7.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | pale brown | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |