LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7624
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | wood – dead, living |
| life habit: | bryophilous (parasitic on mosses and hepatics) |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) | white(ish) brown (beige) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 1.5 |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | clavate |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 40.0 (high) 60.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 20.0 (high) 25.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 3.0 (high) 5.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | absent |