LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 650
Bryophagus gloeocapsa Nitschke ex Arnold
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) |
| [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: | strongly concave, excavate, urceolate | concave |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | yellow(ish) red (orange red) | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (median) 0.8 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 2.0 |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | acerose (needle-shaped) | cylindrical | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 20.0 (high) 30.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 1.5 (high) 2.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | cylindrical |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |