Allocoleopsis franciscana Moreira-Fernandes, Giraldo-Silva, D.Roush, and Garcia-Pichel, 2021

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Allocoleopsis franciscana Moreira-Fernandes, Giraldo-Silva, D.Roush, and Garcia-Pichel, 2021 ( Fig. 2 )

Filaments fasciculated, heteropolar, blue green in color.

Sheaths colorless, firm and thin, commonly open at the end. Trichomes straight, slightly constricted at cross-walls. Cells isodiametric or longer than wide or occasionally slightly shorter than wide, 4.1-6.8 μm long, 4.6-5.4 μm wide. Apical cells rounded or rounded to conical. Hormogonia are separated by necridic cells.

Ecology. This species was isolated in greenhouse soil and biocrusts ( Fernandes et al., 2021), and in this study from gravel submerged in freshwater.

Distribution. San Francisco, California, United States of America ( Fernandes et al., 2021).

Site of collection. Site 2.

Specimen locality: ACKU679.

Figures

Fig. 2. Microscopic photographs of Allocoleopsis franciscana from the strain ACKU679. (A, B) Arrangement of filament, (C) Morphology of trichome, (D) Necridic cell(nc), (E, F) Sheaths(sh), (G, H) Apical cell of trichomes. Scale bars=(A) 50μm, (B-H) 10μm.