
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8639
Phylloblastia dolichospora Vain.
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
substrate: | leaves, fronds, needles – living |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | squamulose (squamulous) |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
[th] upper surface: | white(ish) | grey(ish) green |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | uneven, undulate |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | perithecial, perithecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.42 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | green(ish) black |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | absent |
asci: | fissitunicate – verrucarialean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | cylindrical | [cur] – sigmoidal | [cur] – curved, unciform, falcate, sickle-shaped |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 110.0 (high) 180.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 10.0 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate | muriformly septate – muriform, submuriform |
[asp] transversal septa: | (low) 40.0 (high) 70.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |