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LIAS light – Item Descriptions


LIASlight ItemID: 7333

Gyalectidium catenulatum (Cavalc. & A. A. Silva) Ferraro, Lücking & Sérus.

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical
substrate: leaves, fronds, needles – living
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified
thallus: continuous, diffuse, effuse
[th] upper surface: grey(ish) | green(ish) grey | yellow(ish) grey
[th upper surface]: epruinose
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus)
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: smooth, plane
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial
ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.2 (high) 0.5
ascoma: immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: plane, flat, flattened, expanded
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: green(ish) grey
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: white(ish) | brown(ish) grey
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | hyaline, colourless
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: (low) 1.5 (high) 2.0
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: hyaline, colourless
asci: unitunicate
[asc] tholus: not thickened | thickened
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): absent
ascospores: (median) 1.0
[asp] shape: ellipsoidal
[asp] length [µm]: (low) 30.0 (high) 40.0
[asp] width [µm]: (low) 15.0 (high) 20.0
[asp] septa: present
[asp] septa: muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform
[asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless
[asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent
conidiomata: absent | present
conidia: bifusiform | oblong, oblong-obtuse
[co] length [µm]: (low) 4.0 (high) 8.0
secondary metabolites: absent
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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