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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 875
Caloplaca ammiospila (Wahlenb.) H. Olivier
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Antarctic – Antarctica | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic |
substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | wood – dead, living |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – endosubstratal, inconspicuous, immersed | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | granular, granulose, granulate |
[th] upper surface: | white(ish) grey |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (min) 1.5 |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | entirely amyloid (= Catillaria-, Teloschistes-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 13.0 (high) 17.5 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.5 (high) 8.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent | present – spore lumen bilocular, polarilocular, plurilocular |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | parietin | unknown/unidentified anthraquinone(s) |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |