LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5893
Stenocybe bryophila Walt. Watson
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts |
| life habit: | saprobic (on decaying organic substrate) | bryophilous (parasitic on mosses and hepatics) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.18 (high) 0.3 (max) 0.6 |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| [asp] shape: | broadly ellipsoidal | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 30.0 (high) 40.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 12.0 (high) 15.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish | reddish brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| host organism: | |
| primary photobiont: | absent |