
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 675
Bryoria implexa (Hoffm.) Brodo & D. Hawksw.
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
[th] upper surface: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) | brown(ish) black | grey(ish) brown | green(ish) brown (olive brown) | white(ish) brown (beige) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent | present |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.15 (high) 0.3 (max) 0.35 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | distantly discontiguous |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | pseudocyphellate, with pseudocyphellae |
[th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | isotomic-dichotomous |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.4 (high) 0.5 |
ascoma: | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | grey(ish) brown |
[ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present | abundant |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | subglobose, subspherical | ellipsoidal |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 5.4 (high) 7.5 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 4.5 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | connorstictic acid | norstictic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |