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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7464
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
[th] upper surface: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | yellow(ish) brown | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
[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 |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent | present |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.6 (high) 1.1 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) | discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus) |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | verruculose, minutely warted | verrucose, warted | subsquamulose |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.45 (high) 0.7 |
ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex | distinctly convex | strongly convex, hemispherical, (sub-)globose |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) black | black(ish) 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) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | yellow(ish) brown | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
[ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present | abundant |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | hyaline, colourless | hyaline yellow | yellowish hyaline |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.0 |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
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: | ellipsoidal |
[asp] length [µm]: | (min) 15.5 (low) 19.0 (high) 20.0 (max) 23.5 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (min) 8.0 (low) 10.0 (high) 11.0 (max) 13.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 3.5 (high) 4.0 |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |