Pseudocapsa dubia Ercegović (1925: 95)

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 : 78

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.178.2.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5151326
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scientific name	Pseudocapsa dubia Ercegović (1925: 95)
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Pseudocapsa dubia Ercegović (1925: 95) ( Figs. 8D–8E View FIGURES 8 ).

Round to irregular colonies, 8.0–33.0 µm diam., sub-colonies present. Sheath firm, hyaline to brown, conspicuous, non-lamellate, smooth. Cells spherical, hemispherical to irregular, 2.0–4.0 µm diam., radially arranged in mature colonies. Cell content homogeneous, blue-green to yellow.

Habitat: —Wet walls in a cave.

Studied material: — BRAZIL. São Paulo: Ubatuba, “Sununga” Beach (Gruta-que-chora), 23° 31’ S, 45° 8’ W, 12 April 2003, M. T. Fujii et al. (SP 401448) GoogleMaps .

References

Ercegovic, A. (1925) Litofitska vegetacija vapnenaca i dolomita u Hrvatskoj. Acta Botanica Instituti Botanici Universitatis Zabrabensis 10: 64 - 114.

Figures

FIGURES 8A–8C. Nephrococcus shilinensis. General colony habit and detail of reniform cells (arrows). FIGURES 8D–8E. Pseudocapsa dubia. General colony habit with colonies showing brown sheaths (arrow). FIGURES 8F–8G. Pseudocapsa sp. General colony habit and cells in fan disposition, which is typical from Pseudocapsa (arrow). FIGURE 8H. Chondrocystis dermochroa.