LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 6242
Toninia sedifolia (Scop.) Timdal
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | lichens, lichenized fungi | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | lichenicolous (in/on lichens) |
| thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) |
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) | grey(ish) brown | green(ish) brown (olive brown) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [th upper surface] pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine | dense |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 3.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| [th] lower surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) |
| [th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 3.0 |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose | pruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | scarce, sparse, fine | dense |
| [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: | grey(ish) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with acuate axial body towards the apex (= Bacidia-, Buellia-, Ramalina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 12.0 (low) 14.0 (high) 24.0 (max) 25.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 2.5 (low) 3.0 (high) 5.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [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 |