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Cyanophyceae: Chroococcales: Chroococcaceae
Cyanophyceae: Chroococcales: Merismopediaceae

Merismopedia elegans
A. Braun
Included in the form-genus XIV. Synechocystis (Bergey's Manual, 2nd, 2001)

Merismopedia glauca Order & Family: Floating unicells or a colony embedded in a matrix; no differentiation of apical and base structures; only one family.
Genus: Colonies consiting of orderly arranged cells; diameter of cells at transverse section is the same as its length (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977). Colonies plate-like, cells regularly arranged in a gelatinous matrix; cells spherical or ellipsoid, hemispherical after division (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 2, 1984).

Species: Cell body pale blue-green, 5-7 μm in diam. (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 2, 1984).


Merismopedia elegans A. Braun ?, cell body 8 μm long, 6 μm wide, L/W=1.3, x 640, Iroha-numa (marsh/bog), East of Nakadaiten, Azuma mountains, Kitashiobara village, Yamagata Pref., Japan, July 1, 2007 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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