LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 9776
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Tropical |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | crustose (crustaceous) – episubstratal – unspecified |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
[th] upper surface: | 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) 0.3 (high) 0.7 |
ascoma: | immersed, innate | subsessile, subimmersed, adnate, semi-immersed, emergent |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | plane, flat, flattened, expanded |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | yellow(ish) brown |
[ascm, if apoth] disc, mazaedium: | epruinose |
[ascm] paraphyses/-oids: | present |
asci: | fissitunicate – bitunicate |
[asc] tholus: | thickened |
[asc] tholus amyloidity (iodine reaction): | absent | present |
[asc] tholus amyloidity pattern: | with amyloid tube, ring (= Collema-, Micarea-, Porpidia-, Psora-types etc) |
ascospores: | (median) 8.0 |
[asp] shape: | clavate |
[asp] length [µm]: | (low) 13.5 (high) 15.5 |
[asp] width [µm]: | (low) 3.5 (high) 4.5 |
[asp] septa: | present |
[asp] septa: | transversely septate |
[asp] transversal septa: | (median) 3.0 |
[asp] pigmentation: | hyaline, colourless |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | unknown/unidentified xanthone(s) |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trentepohliaceous, trentepohlioid |