LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8551
Porina eminentior (Nyl.) P. M. McCarthy
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) green | green(ish) brown (olive brown) | yellow(ish) brown |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, squamules): | contiguous, coherent (throughout the thallus) |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | verruculose, minutely warted | rugulose, finely wrinkled |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.54 (high) 1.0 |
| ascoma: | immersed, innate |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | black(ish) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| asci: | unitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 42.0 (high) 109.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 13.0 (high) 29.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 12.0 (high) 22.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | thick, distincly halonate |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | fusiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | absent |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |