LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 8959
Micarea flagellispora Coppins & Kantvilas
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia |
| substrate: | soil, clay, humus, turf, detritus, dead leaves | bryophytes – mosses, liverworts | wood – dead, living | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse | compartimentized – areolate, squamulate |
| [th] upper surface: | green(ish) | white(ish) | green(ish) white | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (min) 0.08 (low) 0.1 (high) 0.4 |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.1 (low) 0.3 (high) 1.0 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex | distinctly convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | black(ish) | brown(ish) black |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin excipular photobionts: | absent |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | brown(ish) black | red(dish) black | black(ish) green |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (min) 1.0 (low) 1.5 (high) 2.0 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 2.5 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | green(ish) grey |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | acicular (needle-shaped) |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 65.0 (high) 85.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 1.5 (high) 1.7 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 (max) 7.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 5.0 (high) 8.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | perlatolic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent | present |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |