Aulosira laxa Kirchner ex Bornet & Flahault (1886: 256)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.359.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13704300 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B6487B2-183A-2627-EB9A-504FD0A0AC13 |
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Felipe |
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Aulosira laxa Kirchner ex Bornet & Flahault (1886: 256) |
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Aulosira laxa Kirchner ex Bornet & Flahault (1886: 256) View in CoL Fig. 43 A–C View FIGURE 43 .
Filaments solitary or loosely entangled in mats, straight or flexuous, 8–10 (–11.5) wide. Sheaths fine, firm, colourless, sometimes diffluent, not lamellated. Trichomes ± cylindrical, constricted at the cross walls, not attenuated towards the apex. Vegetative cells barrel-shaped, shorter than wide, blue-green in colour, (3.5–) 4.2–5.3 μm long × 7.0–8.2 μm wide. Heterocytes intercalary, solitary, ± spherical to cylindrical, 7.0–8.5 μm wide. Akinetes solitary or in short series, cylindrical, remote or adjacent to the heterocytes, 15–25 μm long × 5–8 μm wide, with smooth colourless exospore.
Specimens examined:—Toogoom Lagoon, Northshore.
Observations:—Growing amongst other algae and submerged aquatic plants in a shallow eutrophic urban lagoon.
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