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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 6807
Vezdaea rheocarpa Poelt & Döbbeler
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | lichens, lichenized fungi |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate |
[th] upper surface: | green(ish) |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.02 (high) 0.06 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) | discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus) |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | granulose, granular | verrucose, warted |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.35 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | convex |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) grey | white(ish) red (rose) | red(dish) white (pink) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) grey |
[ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) | with amyloid cap (= Icmadophila-, Lecidea-, Pertusaria-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | ellipsoidal | elongate-fusiform, ellipsoidal-fusiform |
[asp] length [µm]: | (min) 15.0 (low) 18.0 (high) 24.0 (max) 25.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 11.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |