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LIAS light – Item Descriptions


LIASlight ItemID: 7606

Acarospora novomexicana H. Magn.

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Americas – North America (incl Mexico)
substrate: rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
[th] upper surface: yellow(ish) (if dull: buff)
[th upper surface]: epruinose
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0
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: red(dish)
[ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: present | sparse | abundant
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: present
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: (low) 1.7 (high) 2.1
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: yellow(ish) (if dull: buff)
asci: lecanoralean
[asc] tholus: thickened
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): absent
ascospores: (median) 100.0
[asp] shape: ellipsoidal
[asp] length [µm]: (low) 3.0 (high) 5.0
[asp] width [µm]: (low) 1.8 (high) 2.0
[asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular
[asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless
[asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent
conidiomata: absent | present
conidia: bacilliform, bacillar
[co] length [µm]: (low) 2.0 (high) 2.5
secondary metabolites: present
secondary metabolites: epanorin | rhizocarpic acid | vulpinic acid
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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