LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 791
Buellia thiopoliza (Nyl.) Boistel
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | subsquamulose (subsquamulous) |
| thallus: | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) grey | 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) upper surface: | verrucose, warted | bullate | squamulose |
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | absent | present |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (median) 1.0 (max) 1.8 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 7.0 |
| [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] length [µm]: | (min) 14.0 (low) 17.0 (high) 22.0 (max) 27.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 6.5 (low) 7.0 (high) 8.5 (max) 11.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | medium brown, brownish |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 6-O-methylarthothelin | arthothelin | thiophanic acid | granulosin | unknown/unidentified xanthone(s) | cinnamomeic acid B |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |