LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8859
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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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 |