Asterocapsa aerophytica Lederer 2000
- 1. Institute of Botany, Núcleo de Pesquisa em Ficologia, C. P. 3005, 1031 - 970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil & E-mail: watsonarantes @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
- 2. Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA & Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA
- 3. Institute of Botany, Núcleo de Pesquisa em Ficologia, C. P. 3005, 1031 - 970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Description
Asterocapsa aerophytica Lederer (2000: 24) (Figs. 4B–4D).
Round to elongated colonies, rarely irregular, 13.9–154.1 µm diam., isolated or in groups. Sheath firm, hyaline to reddish brown, conspicuous, rarely lamellate, granulated. Cells spherical to ellipsoid, 4.3–5.4 µm diam. Spores dark reddish brown, solitary or in groups after releasing, 5.6–6.3 µm diam. Cell content granulated, green to blue-green.
Habitat: —Dry wood.
Notes: —This species was found within a black mass growing on wood and epiphytic on Scytonema filaments, similar to the original habitat described by Lederer (2000).
Studied material: — BRAZIL. São Paulo: Peruíbe, Ecological Station “Juréia-Itatins”, 24° 26.392’ S, 47° 4.536’ W, 15 August 2011, W.A. Gama-Jr., G.S. Hentschke, C.F.S. Malone & C.L. Sant’Anna (SP 427304).
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Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5145186 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/phytotaxa.178.2.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5145178 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC9FFFE5407E52FFFB5FFDBFFA5FFD5 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03F08786540FE527FF3DFF2FFB46FD87 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2011-08-15
- Family
- Chroococcaceae
- Genus
- Asterocapsa
- Kingdom
- Bacteria
- Order
- Chroococcales
- Phylum
- Cyanobacteria
- Scientific name authorship
- Lederer
- Species
- aerophytica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2011-08-15
- Taxonomic concept label
- Asterocapsa aerophytica Lederer, 2000 sec. Jr, Iv & Sant'Anna, 2014
References
- Lederer, F. (2000) Asterocapsa aerophytica (Cyanobacteria, Chroococcales), a new species from the Triglav National Park (Julian Alps, Slovenia). Algological Studies 99: 23 - 28.