Planktothrix rubescens Anagnostidis & Komárek

• Main Author: Gupta, Pratibha
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Bacteria; Cyanobacteria; Cyanophyceae; Nostocales; Oscillatoriaceae; Planktothrix; Planktothrix rubescens; Antarc*; Antarctica; East Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7829177; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/744387838A4DFFB5FF764A5FFF26984B

Planktothrix rubescens (De Candolle. ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek Archiv für Hydrobiologie 80: 416 (1988). — Basionym: Oscillatoria rubescens DC. ex Gomont, Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Série 7, 16: 204 (Gomont 1892). DESCRIPTION. — Trichome solitary, straight, gradually attenuated at the end, not constricted at the cross-walls; cells granulated, mostly granulated at the septa; apical cell capitate with convex calyptra (Fig. 8G). DIMENSION. — Trichome 6.2-8.0 µm broad and cells 2.1-4.1 µm long. ENVIRONMENT & HABITAT. — Freshwater species; lake; temperature 4°C. Published as part of Gupta, Pratibha, 2021, First report of diversity of Cyanobacteria of Broknes Peninsula of Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica, pp. 241-251 in Cryptogamie, Algologie 20 (15) on page 249, DOI:10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2021v42a15, http://zenodo.org/record/7819309