LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 967
Caloplaca flavorubescens (Huds.) J. R. Laundon
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Africa (incl Madagascar) | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Oceania – Australasia | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – North America (incl Mexico) | Eurasia – Asia Tropical | Arctic |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
[th] upper surface: | yellow(ish) (if dull: buff) | green(ish) yellow | yellow(ish) white (ivory, off-white, cream-coloured) |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent | present |
ascoma: | apothecial, apothecioid – hymenial |
ascoma [mm]: | (low) 1.0 (high) 2.0 |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm, if apoth] margin surface; [if perith] periostiolar area, ostiole, involucrellum: | red(dish) yellow (orange, orange yellow) |
asci: | lecanoralean |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | entirely amyloid (= Catillaria-, Teloschistes-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 15.0 (high) 18.0 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 6.0 (high) 10.0 |
[asp] septa: | absent | present – spore lumen bilocular, polarilocular, plurilocular |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
[asp] perispore, epispore: | not apparent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | unknown/unidentified anthraquinone(s) |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |