LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 859
Calicium victorianum (F. Wilson) Tibell
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | wood – dead, living |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
| [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 – mazaedial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.195 (low) 0.235 (high) 0.4 (max) 0.5 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial | subpedicellate, substipitate, subpedunculate, substalked |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (median) 1.0 |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| [asp] shape: | broadly ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 9.0 (low) 11.0 (high) 13.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 6.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | pale brown | medium brown, brownish | dark brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | physodalic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |