LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 9248
Bunodophoron tibellii (Wedin) Wedin
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Americas – South and Central America |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like |
| [th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | brown(ish) green (olivaceous, olive green) |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 3.3 (high) 11.6 |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | rugose, plicate, folded, pustulate, faveolate, wrinkled |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – mazaedial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 3.5 (high) 10.0 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | pedicellate, stipitate, pedunculate, stalked |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | absent | present |
| asci: | prototunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | not thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | globose, spherical |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 12.0 (low) 15.0 (high) 18.0 (max) 21.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 12.0 (low) 15.0 (high) 18.0 (max) 21.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | reddish brown |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | ornamented, rough, warted, striate, cracked |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | oblong, oblong-obtuse |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 (max) 4.5 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | ascomatic acid | protocetraric acid | sphaerophorin | unknown/unidentified compound(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |