LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 889
Caloplaca aurantia (Pers.) Hellb.
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | rock – calcareous, calciferous, basic |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | placodioid-crustose, placodioid-foliose |
| [th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 1.5 (high) 3.0 |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| 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) 10.0 (high) 16.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 7.0 (high) 12.0 |
| [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 |