LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 835
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | squamulose (squamulous) |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | yellow(ish) grey |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | verrucose, warted |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – mazaedial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.3(median) 0.8 (max) 1.1 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | green(ish) yellow |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | pruinose |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 13.0 (high) 16.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 5.5 (high) 6.5 (max) 8.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | dark brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | globose, spherical |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 0.13 (high) 0.2 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | norstictic acid | vulpinic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |