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 |