LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 7891
Diploschistella athalloides (Nyl.) Lücking, K. Knudsen & Fryday
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | filamentose (filamentous), pannose |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | white(ish) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) |
| [th] medulla amyloidity | |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 0.5 (max) 1.5 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: | dense |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | abundant |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless | hyaline yellow |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | black(ish) brown |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 25.0 (high) 30.0 (max) 40.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 15.0 (high) 20.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |