Desertifilum salkalinema Cai et Li, 2017

Cai, Fang-Fang, Chen, You-Xin, Zhu, Meng-Ling, Li, Xiao-Chuang & Li, Ren-Hui, 2017, Desertifilum salkalinema sp. nov. (Oscillatoriales, Cyanobacteria) from an alkaline pool in China, Phytotaxa 292 (3), pp. 262-270 : 264

Desertifilum salkalinema Cai et Li sp. nov. ( Fig. 1 )

Type: — China, saline-alkaline pond, Zhejiang Province, 6th. July 2014.

Description: —Thallus thin, pale to bright blue green, filaments mostly densely entangled, varying in length, motility present, sheath thin, colorless, attached to trichome, not constricted or slightly constricted at the cross wall, 2.08 (±.80) μm wide and 5.14 (±0.51) μm long ( Fig. 1 ), ratio of length to width is 2.20 (±0.45). Cells cylindrical, attenuated or not attenuated at the ends, End cells slightly elongated. Cell content homogenous, gas vesicles absent, tolerant to alkalis and salts.

Etymology: —the name of the species was chosen based on the sampling environment.

Habitat: —alkaline cultivated pool, Zhejiang Province, China.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Micrographs of Desertifilum salkalinema under the light microscopy (LM). (A, B) straight and wavy filamentous. Scale bars=10 μm.