LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7830
Buellia fouquieriensis Bungartz
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | subsquamulose (subsquamulous) |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) brown (olive brown) | yellow(ish) brown | white(ish) brown (beige) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) | discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus) | distantly discontiguous |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted | subsquamulose | squamulose |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.1 (low) 0.2 (high) 0.4 (max) 0.6 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) black |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina | |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) black |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with acuate axial body towards the apex (= Bacidia-, Buellia-, Ramalina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 9.0 (low) 9.8(median) 11.7 (high) 13.6 (max) 15.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 5.0 (low) 5.2(median) 5.8 (high) 6.5 (max) 7.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 14.0 (high) 22.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |