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LIASlight ItemID: 7613

Acarospora schleicheri (Ach.) A. Massal.

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic
substrate: soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus: squamulose (squamulous)
thallus: compartimentized – areolate, squamulate
[th] upper surface: yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | white(ish) yellow
[th upper surface]: epruinose | pruinose
[th upper surface] pruina: scarce, sparse, fine | dense
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: (low) 0.4 (high) 1.0 (max) 2.0
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus)
[th] lower surface: yellow(ish) (if dull: buff)
[th lower surface] specific structures: absent
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: black(ish) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown)
[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) brown | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown)
asci: lecanoralean
[asc] tholus: thickened
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): absent
ascospores: (median) 100.0
[asp] shape: globose, spherical | broadly ellipsoidal
[asp] length [µm]: (low) 2.0 (high) 4.0
[asp] width [µm]: (low) 2.0 (high) 2.5
[asp] septa: absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular
[asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless
[asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent
secondary metabolites: present
secondary metabolites: rhizocarpic 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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