LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7684
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) |
substrate: | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic | 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 areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.08 (high) 0.1 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches): | irregular |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
[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) |
[asp] shape: | globose, spherical | subglobose, subspherical |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | cylindrical |
[co] length [µm]: | (median) 1.0 |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |