LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 622
Blarneya hibernica D. Hawksw., Coppins & P. James
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) |
| substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | lichenicolous (in/on lichens) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | blue(ish) white | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) | red(dish) white (pink) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – mazaedial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (median) 1.5 |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 9.0 (low) 10.5 (high) 13.5 (max) 17.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 5.5 (low) 6.5 (high) 8.0 (max) 9.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | dark brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | ellipsoidal | filiform, vermiform | oblong, oblong-obtuse |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 4.0 (max) 17.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | lecanoric acid |
| host organism: | |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |