LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7875
Caloplaca nashii Nav.-Ros., Gaya & Hladun
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: | 
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | 
| substrate: | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified | 
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | 
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | 
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | 
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) | 
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose | 
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | 
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) | 
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | verruculose, minutely warted | verrucose, warted | 
| ascomata: | absent | present | 
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | 
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.4 (max) 0.5 | 
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | convex | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) | yellow(ish) red (orange red) | 
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) | yellow(ish) red (orange red) | 
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent | 
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless | 
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present | 
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | yellow(ish) brown | 
| asci: | lecanoralean | 
| [asc] tholus: | thickened | 
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present | 
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | entirely amyloid (= Catillaria-, Teloschistes-types etc) | 
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 | 
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal | 
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 12.5 (high) 14.0 (max) 18.0 | 
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 5.5 (max) 7.0 | 
| [asp] septa: | absent | present – spore lumen bilocular, polarilocular, plurilocular | 
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | 
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | 
| secondary metabolites: | present | 
| secondary metabolites: | unknown/unidentified anthraquinone(s) | 
| primary photobiont: | present | 
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent | 
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |