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Cyanophyceae: Chroococcales: Chroococcaceae
Cyanophyceae: Chroococcales: Merismopediaceae

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

Merismopedia 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, 1.3-2 (-3) μm in diam. (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 2, 1984).


Merismopedia convoluta or M. tenuissima ?, cell body 3.5 μm long, 3 μm wide, x 640, Kijioka Castle Ruin, Kodama town, Saitama Pref., Japan, June 2003 by Y. Tsukii
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