LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7650
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 1.5 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | 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: | ovoid, ovate |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 9.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar | [cur] – curved, unciform, falcate, sickle-shaped |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 6.0 |
| primary photobiont: | absent |