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LIAS light – Item Descriptions


LIASlight ItemID: 7027

Diploschistes hypoleucus Zahlbr.

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Africa (incl Madagascar) | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America
substrate: soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified
thallus: cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate
[th] upper surface: yellow(ish) green | grey(ish) brown | yellow(ish) brown
[th upper surface]: epruinose
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: smooth, plane
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial
ascoma: subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: strongly concave, excavate, urceolate | concave
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
asci: unitunicate
[asc] tholus: thickened
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): absent
ascospores: (median) 8.0
[asp] shape: ellipsoidal
[asp] length [µm]: (low) 20.0 (high) 28.0
[asp] width [µm]: (low) 8.0 (high) 14.0
[asp] septa: present
[asp] septa: muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform
[asp] transversal septa: (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0
[asp] pigmentation: medium brown, brownish
[asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent
secondary metabolites: present
secondary metabolites: gyrophoric acid | lecanoric acid | orsellinic acid
primary photobiont: present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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