LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 6980
Xylographa parallela (Ach. : Fr.) Behlen & Desberger
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 0.3 |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) black |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) black |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [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 and flanks (= Rimularia-, Trapelia-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal | elongate-fusiform, ellipsoidal-fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 11.0 (high) 17.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 7.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | pale brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | norstictic acid | stictic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |