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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7877
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Arctic |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
[th] upper surface: | blue(ish) grey |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[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: | present |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | discontiguous, dispersed (throughout the thallus) |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verruculose, minutely warted | verrucose, warted |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 1.0 |
ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
[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) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
[ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent | present |
[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: | cylindrical |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 11.0 (high) 14.0 (max) 15.5 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 5.5 (high) 7.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent | present – spore lumen bilocular, polarilocular, plurilocular |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[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 |