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(Komárek & Anagnostidis 2005, pg. 587, fig. 877)

Phylum: Cyanobacteria
Class: Cyanophyceae

Order: Oscillatoriales
Family: Oscillatoriaceae

Genus: Oscillatoria
Trichomes blue-green, solitary, usually straight, ungranulated cross walls, walls not

attenuated at the ends. Apical cells rounded without calyptra. Cells 1-2 µm long, 5-6 µm in

diameter.
Accession No. CTR00067

18. Oculatella Zammit, Billi &Albertano (Pl. 2, Fig. C)

(http://www.algaebase.org)
Phylum: Cyanobacteria

Class: Cyanophyceae
Order: Oscillatoriales

Family: Oscillatoriaceae
Genus: Oculatella

Filamentous cyanobacteria, forming reddish, sometimes greenish compact subaerophytic

biofilms on solid calcareous substrata. Filaments fine, long, coiled into clusters and wavy,
unsheathed and mostly unbranched. Sheaths colourless, thin, firm, enveloping one trichome

and usually attached to it or slightly distant, occasionally open at the ends. Trichomes
cylindrical slightly constricted at cross walls, not attenuated toward the ends. False branching

occurs very rarely under culture conditions. Apical cell conical-rounded. Trichomes fine 1-3
um in diameter.

Accession No. CTR00068

19. Westiellopsis prolifica Janet (Pl. 2, Fig. A)
(Desikachary 1959, pg. 596, pl.131, figs. 1-12)

Phylum: Cyanobacteria

Class: Cyanophyceae
Order: Nostocales

Family: Hapalosiphonaceae
Genus: Westiellopsis

Filamentous thallus, filaments intensely true-branched, Main filaments torulose, with short
barrel-shaped cells, branch filaments thinner and elongate (T-type of branches). Cells not

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