LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8644
Parmeliella coerulescens Müll. Arg.
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 |
[th] lower surface: | blue(ish) |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 1.0 |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 12.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 8.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
secondary metabolites: | absent |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |