
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 613
Biatoridium monasteriense J. Lahm ex Körb.
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
[th] upper surface: | green(ish) | grey(ish) green | green(ish) yellow |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.5 |
ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | white(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless | yellow(ish) brown |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (median) 1.5 |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (median) 5.0 |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | entirely amyloid (= Catillaria-, Teloschistes-types etc) |
ascospores: | (low) 100.0 (high) 150.0 (max) 200.0 |
[asp] shape: | globose, spherical |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 3.5 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 3.5 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |