LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 9300
Ramboldia heterocarpa (Fée) Kalb, Lumbsch & Elix
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Americas – South and Central America |
| 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: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | brown(ish) yellow (ochraceous, ochre) | yellow(ish) brown |
| [th upper surface]: | epruinose |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
| [th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.6 (high) 1.2 |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (low) 0.7 (high) 1.0 (max) 1.2 |
| ascoma: | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded | subconvex, slightly convex | convex |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) | yellow(ish) red (orange red) | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
| [ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | red(dish) | yellow(ish) red (orange red) | brown(ish) red (carneous) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | yellow(ish) red (orange red) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (low) 3.0 (high) 4.0 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (median) 4.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | yellow(ish) red (orange red) |
| asci: | lecanoralean |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | amyloid with widening axial body towards the apex (= Lecanora-, Parmelia-, Rinodina-types etc) |
| ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | oblong, oblong-obtuse | narrowly ellipsoidal |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (min) 8.0 (low) 8.9 (high) 10.4 (max) 11.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (min) 3.0 (low) 3.3 (high) 3.8 (max) 4.0 |
| [asp] septa: | absent – spore lumen unilocular, monolocular |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| conidiomata: | absent | present |
| conidia: | filiform, vermiform |
| [co] length [µm]: | (low) 20.0 (high) 26.0 |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | fumarprotocetraric acid | lichexanthone | protocetraric acid | secalonic acid A | russulone | unknown/unidentified secalonic acid derivate(s) |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |