LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7378
Lecanora collatolica J. W. Thomson & T. H. Nash
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | placodioid-crustose, placodioid-foliose |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | grey(ish) yellow | green(ish) brown (olive brown) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus) | distantly discontiguous |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verruculose, minutely warted | verrucose, warted |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present | abundant |
| [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 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.5 (high) 2.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | 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: | broadly ellipsoidal | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 10.0 (max) 12.5 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 7.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (min) 20.0 (low) 30.0 (high) 35.0 (max) 45.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | placodiolic acid | usnic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |