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Cyanophyceae: Nostocales: Oscillatoriaceae

 Microcoleus sp.
Desmazieres 1823


Family: Trichome (filamentous structure) lacks heterocysts; with equal diameter throughout whole length; no hair-like structure; no branching.
Genus: More than two trichomes within a mucous sheath (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).

Microcoleus, trichome 4 μm in diam., cell body μm long, x 400, x 640, from soil in a park near Hosei Univ., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, May 2001 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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