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LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8903
Siphulastrum granulatum P. M. Jørg. & D. J. Galloway
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
substrate: | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | squamulose (squamulous) |
thallus: | granular, granulose, granulate |
[th] upper surface: | green(ish) brown (olive brown) |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | hairy, pilose, setose, hirsute, tomentose, pubescent, felt-like |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 |
ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
asci: | lecanoralean |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | ellipsoidal |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 12.0 (high) 15.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 7.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | argopsin | unknown/unidentified (tri-)terpenoid(s), (tri-)terpene(s) |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | cyanobacterial |