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Chroococcus tenax Hieronymus 1892
- 1. Institute of Botany, Núcleo de Pesquisa em Ficologia, C. P. 3005, 1031 - 970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil & E-mail: watsonarantes @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
- 2. Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA & Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA
- 3. Institute of Botany, Núcleo de Pesquisa em Ficologia, C. P. 3005, 1031 - 970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Description
Chroococcus tenax (Kirchner) Hieronymus (1892: 483) (Figs. 5A–5B).
Basionym: Chroococcus turgidus var. tenax Kirchner (1878: 262).
Round to elliptical colonies, 18.0–54.7 µm diam., 2–4(8–16) celled. Sheath firm, hyaline, conspicuous, intensely lamellate, smooth. Cells ellipsoid to hemispherical after division, 12.7–20.7 µm diam. Cell content granulated, bluegreen to olive green.
Habitat: —Waterlogged soil.
Studied material: — BRAZIL. São Paulo: Cananéia, State Park of “Ilha do Cardoso” (Perequê), 25º 4’ 8” S, 47º 55’ 12.24” W, 29 June 2010, W.A. Gama-Jr. & C.F.S. Malone (SP 401439).
Notes
Published as part of Jr, Watson Arantes Gama, Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse & Sant'Anna, Célia Leite, 2014, How diverse are coccoid cyanobacteria? A case study of terrestrial habitats from the Atlantic Rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil), pp. 61-97 in Phytotaxa 178 (2) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.178.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5145178
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5145188 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/phytotaxa.178.2.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5145178 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC9FFFE5407E52FFFB5FFDBFFA5FFD5 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03F08786540EE526FF3DFD61FC6AFBCD (URL)
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2010-06-29
- Verbatim event date
- 2010-06-29
- Scientific name authorship
- Hieronymus
- Kingdom
- Bacteria
- Phylum
- Cyanobacteria
- Order
- Chroococcales
- Family
- Chroococcaceae
- Genus
- Chroococcus
- Species
- tenax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chroococcus tenax Hieronymus, 1892 sec. Jr, Iv & Sant'Anna, 2014
References
- Hieronymus, G. (1892) Beitrage zur Morphologie und Biologie der Algen. Beitrage zur Biologie der Pflanzen 5: 461 - 495.
- Kirchner, O. (1878) Algen. In: Cohn, F. (Ed.) Kryptogamen-Flora von Schlesien. Part 1. Vol. 2. J. U. Kern's Verlag, Breslau, 284 pp.