LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7626
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenicolous (in/on lichens) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (median) 2.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | green(ish) brown (olive brown) | yellow(ish) brown |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| ascospores: | (min) 6.0(median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 48.0 (high) 52.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 21.0 (high) 25.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 9.0 (high) 11.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | absent |