LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7704
Calotrichopsis filiformis Henssen
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | filamentose (filamentous), pannose |
| thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate |
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (median) 0.025 |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.2 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal | oval |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 12.5 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 4.0 (low) 5.0 (high) 6.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | cylindrical |
| [co] length [µm]: | (median) 2.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |