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LIAS light – Item Descriptions


LIASlight ItemID: 8120

Opegrapha xerica Torrente & Egea

Characters[*]:Character States[*]:
global occurrence: Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico)
substrate: bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs
life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts)
thallus: crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | leprose, leprarioid, powdery, byssoid
thallus: granular, granulose, granulate
[th] upper surface: grey(ish) | 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 | granulose, granular
[th] morphol substructures (eg lobes, branches)
ascomata: absent | present
ascoma: apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial
ascoma [mm]: (low) 0.15 (high) 0.35
ascoma: subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: black(ish)
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: epruinose | pruinose
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium pruina: scarce, sparse, fine | dense
[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] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: (median) 1.5
[ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: hyaline, colourless | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green)
asci: fissitunicate – bitunicate
[asc] tholus: thickened
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): present
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc)
ascospores: (median) 8.0
[asp] shape: ellipsoidal | oblong, oblong-obtuse
[asp] length [µm]: (min) 12.0 (low) 14.0 (high) 20.0
[asp] width [µm]: (min) 3.0 (low) 4.0 (high) 5.5
[asp] septa: present
[asp] septa: transversely septate
[asp] transversal septa: (low) 3.0 (high) 5.0
[asp] pigmentation: hyaline, colourless | pale brown
[asp] perispore, epispore: not apparent | thin, thinly halonate | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked
conidiomata: absent | present
conidia: bacilliform, bacillar
[co] length [µm]: (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0
secondary metabolites: absent
primary photobiont: present
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent
primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid

[*] Not all (synonymous, equivalent or similar) terms being provided in parallel for a character or character state (e.g. 'endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed') need to be valid for the taxon under concern.


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