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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 6672
Verrucaria aspiciliicola R. Sant.
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe |
substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[th upper surface]: | pruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 1.0 |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.1 (high) 0.18 |
ascoma: | immersed, innate |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | absent |
asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | ellipsoidal | oblong, oblong-obtuse |
[asp] length [µm]: | (min) 18.5 (low) 21.5(median) 23.9 (high) 26.5 (max) 30.5 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (min) 6.5 (low) 7.5(median) 8.5 (high) 9.5 (max) 10.5 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
host organism: | |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |