image_list image_listE

Cyanophyceae: Nostocales: Nostocaceae

Anabaena torulosa
(Carmichael) Lagerheim

Family: Trichome (filamentous structure) with heterocysts; with equal diameter throughout hole length; no branching; heterocysts intervening or at base.
Genus: Mucous sheath, nearly invisible; heterocysts intervening; filments solitary or agglutinate within a gelatinous matrix (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).


Anabaena torulosa (Carmichael) Lagerheim, cell body 2.5-4 μm long, 5.5 μm wide, x 640, rice field, Konuma, Sakado city, Saitama Pref., Japan, July 18, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Anabaena


Please click on images for viewing enlarged.
Copyright Protist Information Server