LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 5895
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | saprobic (on decaying organic substrate) | lichenicolous (in/on lichens) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.4 (high) 0.5 |
| ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 20.0 (high) 32.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 10.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| host organism: | |
| primary photobiont: | absent |