LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 6751
Wahlenbergiella mucosa (Wahlenb.) Gueidan & Thüs
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Antarctic – Antarctica | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
substrate: | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
[th] upper surface: | black(ish) | green(ish) | green(ish) black | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimulose, subrimose |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.15 |
ascoma: | immersed, innate |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | absent | present |
asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 10.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 7.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | thin, thinly halonate | thick, distincly halonate |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |