LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7032
Diploschistes sticticus (Körb.) Müll. Arg.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | blue(ish) grey | blue(ish) brown (violet brown) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.5 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.75 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | grey(ish) black |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 1.5 |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (low) 6.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 19.0 (high) 27.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 15.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
| [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 |