LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 9375
Sagenidiopsis subconfluentica Elix
| Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
|---|---|
| global occurrence: | Oceania – Australasia | Oceania – Pacific Islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) |
| substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs | rock, stones, pebbles – unspecified |
| life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
| thallus: | leprose, leprarioid, powdery, byssoid | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
| [th] upper surface: | white(ish) | white(ish) grey | grey(ish) green |
| [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
| [th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
| [th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | present |
| [th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | absent |
| ascomata: | absent | present |
| ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
| ascoma [mm]: | (min) 0.3 |
| ascoma: | sessile, superficial |
| [ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm, if apoth] subhymenial layers, hypothecium; [if perith] basal excipulum: | hyaline, colourless | red(dish) brown (if pale: orange brown) |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid cells width [µm]: | (median) 1.5 |
| [ascm] paraphyses/-oid apical cells width [µm]: | (min) 3.0 |
| [ascm] epihymenium, epithecium: | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) |
| asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
| [asc] tholus: | thickened |
| [asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent | present |
| ascospores: | (min) 4.0(median) 8.0 |
| [asp] shape: | clavate |
| [asp] length [µm]: | (low) 11.0 (high) 13.0 |
| [asp] width [µm]: | (low) 2.5 (high) 4.0 |
| [asp] septa: | present |
| [asp] septa: | transversely septate |
| [asp] transversal septa: | (low) 1.0 (high) 3.0 |
| [asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
| [asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
| secondary metabolites: | present |
| secondary metabolites: | arthoniaic acid | atranorin | confluentic acid | subconfluentic acid |
| primary photobiont: | present |
| secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
| primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |