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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7683
Ephebe japonica Asahina & Henssen
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical |
substrate: | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | filamentose (filamentous), pannose | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
[th] upper surface: | black(ish) |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | irregular |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.2 |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | hyaline, colourless |
asci: | prototunicate |
[asc] tholus: | not thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | entirely amyloid (= Catillaria-, Teloschistes-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 16.0 |
[asp] shape: | oval |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 8.0 (high) 10.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.5 (high) 4.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | cylindrical |
[co] length [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.0 |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |