Phormidium bekesiense (I.Kiss) K.Kiss

Gupta, Pratibha, 2021, First report of diversity of Cyanobacteria of Broknes Peninsula of Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica, Cryptogamie, Algologie 20 (15), pp. 241-251 : 247

Phormidium bekesiense (I.Kiss) K.Kiss

Preslia 73: 374 ( Anagnostidis 2001). Komárek & Anagn., Cyanoprokaryota Part 2: Oscillatoriales 19 (2): 465, f. 686 ( Komárek & Anagnostidis2005). — Basionym: Oscillatoria bekesiensis I.Kiss, Szegedi Pedagógiai Föiskola évkönyve 19, t. 1, f. 3-5 ( Desikachary 1959).

DESCRIPTION. — Trichome more or less straight or cylindrical, not constricted at the cross-walls, not attenuated towards end, capitate at the end; cells distinctly granular at the cross-walls; apical cell capitate, spherical, usually narrower than other vegetative cells ( Fig. 8J ).

DIMENSION. — Trichome 4.6-8.5 µm broad and cells 1.6-3.5 µm long.

ENVIRONMENT & HABITAT. — Freshwater species; wet rocks & in lake water; temperature 3°C.

Figures

FIG. 8. — Cyanoprokaryotes of Broknes Peninsula. A, Chroococcus minutus (Kütz.) Nägeli; B, Gloeocapsa biformis Ercegovic; C, Cyanosarcina burmensis Skuja, D, Oscillatoria anguina (Bory) Gomont; E, Oscillatoria curviceps C.Agardh ex Gomont; F, Oscillatoria limosa C.Agardh ex Gomont; G, Planktothrix rubescens (DC. ex Gomont) Anagn. & Komárek; H, Lyngbya confervoides C.Agardh ex Gomont; I, Phormidium ambiguum Gomont; J, Phormidium bekesiense (I.Kiss) K.Kiss,; K, Oscillatoria jenensis G.Schmid; L, Phormidium subfuscum Kütz. ex Gomont; M, Oscillatoria tenuis C.Agardh ex Gomont; N, Aulosira fritschii Bharadwaja; O, Coleospermum goeppertianum (goppertianum) Kirch. ex Frank; P, Stigonema mesentericum Geitler. Scale bars: A, N, O, 30 µm; B, C, F, I, L, 10 µm; D, E, G, H, J, K, M, P, 20 µm.