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Cyanophyceae: Nostocales: Nostocaceae

Cylindrospermum sp.
[Kützing 1843] Bornet et Flahoult 1886 (John et al. ed. 2002)

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 at base with a large akinete (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).


Cylindrospermum ?, cell body 7.5-11 μm long, 12 μm wide, L/W=0.6-0.9, heterocysts spherical, 15 μm in diam., akinete 48 μm long, 14 μm wide, L/W=3.4, x 200, x 400, x 640, Onnenai, Kushiro marsh, Kushiro city, Hokkaido, Japan, October 16, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Cylindrospermum Cylindrospermum Cylindrospermum Cylindrospermum Cylindrospermum
x 400
Cylindrospermum Cylindrospermum


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