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Cyanophyceae: Nostocales: Nostocaceae

 Nostoc sp.
[Vaucher 1803] Bornet et Flahault 1886 (John et al. ed. 2002)
Vaucher 1803 (Bergey's Manual 2001)

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; filaments agglutinate (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).

Nostoc sp., colony nearly spherical 86 μm in diam., cell body 2.5 μm long, 3.2 μm wide, x 400, x 640, Riverside green land (near Tone river), Sawara city, Chiba Pref., Japan, October 11, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Nostoc Nostoc
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