LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8562
Porina hyperleptalea P. M. McCarthy & Kantvilas
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock – siliceous, siliciferous, acidic |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose |
[th] upper surface: | green(ish) | grey(ish) green |
[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 | uneven, undulate |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.23(median) 0.34 (high) 0.45 |
ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless | yellow(ish) brown |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (median) 1.0 |
asci: | unitunicate |
[asc] tholus: | not thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | cylindrical | fusiform |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 24.0(median) 29.0 (high) 37.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.0(median) 5.5 (high) 7.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
conidiomata: | absent | present |
conidia: | bacilliform, bacillar |
[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 |