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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.