LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7640
Arthonia phlyctiformis ssp. californica Grube
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) yellow |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.1 (high) 0.5 |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | green(ish) brown (olive brown) | yellow(ish) brown |
| 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: | ellipsoidal | ovoid, ovate |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 25.0 (high) 30.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 12.0 (high) 17.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 6.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 6.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | absent |