LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8290
Melanotopelia rugosa (Kantvilas & Vězda) Lumbsch & Mangold
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – South and Central America | Antarctic – Southern Subpolar Islands, Subantarctic Islands |
| substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.5 (high) 1.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | white(ish) |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | hyaline, colourless | red(dish) brown (pale: orange brown) |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (low) 1.0 (high) 4.0 |
| [asp] shape: | fusiform |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 80.0 (high) 230.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 20.0 (high) 45.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | pale brown | yellowish brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | thin, thinly halonate | amyloid |
| secondary metabolites: | absent | present |
| secondary metabolites: | constictic acid | cryptostictic acid | stictic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |