Gloeocapsa stegophila (Itzigsohn) Rabenhorst (1863: 72)

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), Phytotaxa 178 (2), pp. 61-97 : 81

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.178.2.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5151339

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scientific name

Gloeocapsa stegophila (Itzigsohn) Rabenhorst (1863: 72)
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Gloeocapsa stegophila (Itzigsohn) Rabenhorst (1863: 72) ( Figs. 9J–9K View FIGURES 9 ).

Basionym: Monocapsa stegophila Itzigsohn in Rabenhorst (1853: 263 a).

Round to elongated colonies, 7.2–32.8(57.7) µm diam., 2–4–8 celled, rarely more. Sheath firm, hyaline to dark orange, conspicuous, rarely lamellate, smooth to slightly granulated. Cells spherical to hemispherical, (2.8)3.2–3.9(4.2) µm diam. Cell content homogenous to sparsely granulated, blue-green. Spores not observed.

Habitat: —Tree bark and dry rocks.

Notes: —This species differs from Gloeocapsa rupicola Kützing (1849: 221) by the pattern of colonial coloration, which is dark reddish in the inner part and almost hyaline at the edge of the colonies ( Komárek & Anagnostidis 1998). The cell diameter is also smaller in G. rupicola .

Studied material: — BRAZIL. São Paulo: Cananéia, “Recanto do Mar” Inn, 25º 1’ 16” S, 47º 55’ 31” W, 30 June 2010, W.A. Gama-Jr. & C.F.S. Malone (SP 401447); Peruíbe, Ecological Station “Juréia-Itatins”, 24° 23.018’ S, 47° 4.847’ W, 17 August 2011, W.A. Gama-Jr., G.S. Hentschke, C.F.S. Malone & C.L. Sant’Anna (SP 427326) GoogleMaps .

Komarek, J. & Anagnostidis, K. (1998) Cyanoprokaryota 1. Teil: Chroococcales. In: Ettl, H., Gartner, G., Heynig, H. & Mollenhauer D. (Eds.) Susswasserflora von Mitteleuropa 19 / 1. Fischer, Jena, 548 pp.

Kutzing, F. T. (1849) Species algarum. F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 922 pp. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 60464

Rabenhorst, L. (1853) Die Algen Sachsens. Resp. Mittel-Europa's Gesammelt und herausgegeben von Dr. L. Rabenhorst, Dec. 27 / 28. Leipzig.

Rabenhorst, L. (1863) Kryptogamen-Flora von Sachsen, der Ober-Lausitz, Thuringen und Nordbohmen mit Berucksichtigung der benachbarten Lander. Kummer.

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FIGURES 9A. Gloeocapsa compacta. Colony collected from a tree bark.

Kingdom

Bacteria

Phylum

Cyanobacteria

Class

Cyanophyceae

Order

Chroococcales

Family

Chroococcaceae

Genus

Gloeocapsa