LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8859
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: | 
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | 
| substrate: | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified | 
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) | 
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified | 
| thallus: | cracked, fissured, fractured, rimose | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate | 
| [th] upper surface: | brown(ish) grey | 
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | 
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | 
| [th] medulla amyloidity: | absent | 
| ascomata: | absent | present | 
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial | 
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.2 (high) 0.58 | 
| ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex | 
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | 
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless | 
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present | 
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 2.0 (high) 3.0 | 
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 | 
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | green(ish) grey | 
| 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] shape: | ellipsoidal | 
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 10.0 (high) 14.0 (max) 16.0 | 
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 7.0 | 
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular | present | 
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate | 
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 1.0 | 
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless | grey, greyish | 
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent | 
| conidiomata: | absent | present | 
| conidia: | ellipsoidal | 
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 4.0 (high) 5.0 | 
| secondary metabolites: | present | 
| secondary metabolites: | connorstictic acid | norstictic acid | 
| primary photobiont: | present | 
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent | 
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |