LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8143
Letrouitia leprolytoides S. Y. Kondr. & Elix
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| 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: | green(ish) | green(ish) yellow |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.5 |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.4 (high) 0.9 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | concave | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (median) 2.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| ascospores: | (min) 4.0 (low) 6.0 (high) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 23.0 (high) 30.0 (max) 31.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 8.0 (low) 9.0 (high) 12.0 (max) 14.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (min) 3.0(median) 5.0 (max) 7.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | 7-chloroemodin | flavo-obscurin A | fragilin | parietin | 7-chloroemodinal | 7-chloroparietinic acid | physcoin bisanthrone |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |