LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7281
Bacidina neosquamulosa (Aptroot & Herk) S. Ekman
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | squamulose (squamulous) | subsquamulose (subsquamulous) |
| thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | green(ish) grey | grey(ish) green | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [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 | present |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent | present |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.1 (high) 0.2 (max) 0.4 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus) |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | subsquamulose | squamulose |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.7 (max) 1.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | grey(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) red (carneous) | 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) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) red (rose) | red(dish) white (pink) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.7 (high) 2.3 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 5.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | hyaline, colourless | yellow(ish) brown | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | clavate | acicular (needle-shaped) |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 28.0 (low) 40.0 (high) 55.0 (max) 58.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 1.3 (high) 1.7 (max) 2.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (min) 3.0(median) 7.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform | [cur] – curved, unciform, falcate, sickle-shaped |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 35.0 (low) 40.0 (high) 57.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |