LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 745
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
substrate: | lichens, lichenized fungi |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | lichenicolous (in/on lichens) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | white(ish) grey |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] medulla amyloidity: | present |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.25 (high) 0.8 |
ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | black(ish) green | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) | green(ish) brown (olive brown) |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with acuate axial body towards the apex (= Bacidia-, Buellia-, Ramalina-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | oblong, oblong-obtuse |
[asp] length [µm]: | (min) 6.0 (low) 8.0 (high) 10.0 (max) 11.2 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (min) 3.5 (low) 5.3(median) 5.7 (high) 6.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 3.5 (high) 4.0 |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | miriquidic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |