LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5883
Staurothele rupifraga (A. Massal.) Arnold
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
| substrate: | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) grey | blue(ish) brown (violet brown) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.2 (low) 0.32 (high) 0.38 (max) 0.4 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | absent |
| asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (min) 2.0(median) 4.0 (max) 5.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 30.0 (low) 44.0(median) 49.5 (high) 55.5 (max) 62.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 18.0 (low) 20.0(median) 22.6 (high) 27.5 (max) 27.5 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 12.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | dark brown |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |