Phormidium ambiguum Gomont 1892
Creators
- 1. Botanical Survey of India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Government of India AJCBIBG, Botanic Garden Howrah - 711 103 (India) drpratibha 2011 @ rediffmail. com (corresponding author)
Description
Phormidium ambiguum Gomont
Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Série 7 (16): 178 (Gomont 1892). Desikachary, Cyanophyta 266, t. 44, f. 16 (Desikachary 1959). Komárek & Anagn., Cyanoprokaryota Part 2: Oscillatoriales 19 (2): 479 (Komárek & Anagnostidis 2005).
DESCRIPTION. — Filament elongate; sheath thin, firm, mucilaginous, colourless, sometime thicker diffluent, sometimes more or less lamellated; trichome slightly constricted or sometimes not constricted at the cross-walls; end not attenuated, not capitate, blue-green; cells not granulated at the cross-walls or sometimes granulated; end cell rounded, calyptra absent (Fig. 8I).
DIMENSION. — Trichome 3.5-7. 8 µm broad and cells 1.2-3.4 µm long.
ENVIRONMENT & HABITAT. — Freshwater and marine species; wet rocks, free-floating & benthic in stagnant water; temperature 3.5°C.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Oscillatoriaceae
- Genus
- Phormidium
- Kingdom
- Bacteria
- Order
- Nostocales
- Phylum
- Cyanobacteria
- Scientific name authorship
- Gomont
- Species
- ambiguum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phormidium ambiguum Gomont, 1892 sec. Gupta, 2021
References
- GOMONT M. 1892. - Monographie des Oscillariees (Nostocacees Homocystees). Deuxieme partie. - Lyngbyees. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Serie 7 16: 91 - 264, pls 1 - 7.
- DESIKACHARY T. V. 1959. - Cyanophyta. Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, 686 p.
- KOMAREK J. & ANAGNOSTIDIS K. 2005. - Cyanoprokaryota 2 nd Part: Oscillatoriales, in BUDEL B., KRIENITZ L., GARTNER G. & SCHAGERL M. (eds.), Susswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Elsevier / Spektrum, Heidelberg 19 (2): 759 p.