Synechocystis primigenia N.L.Gardner

• Region

  West Indies

• Country

  Puerto Rico

• Locality

  Arecibo to Hatillo, on limestone

• Coordinates

  18.4214, -66.7315

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

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Determined by Francis Drouet and William A. Daily

1. Synechocystis primigenia

A group of eclls, showing stages in division.

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Synechocystis primigenia sp. nov.

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Cells perfectly spherical in the resting stage, without visible
membrane or gelatinous tegument, 0.8-1 p diam., pale aeruginous.

Growing on limestone between Hatillo and Arecibo, no.
lo77 b, type; on the wall of a church, forming, in company with
other Myxophyceae, a thin stratum, Sabana Grande, no. 953 b.

Tins is the smallest and simplest example of all the known
species of the genus.

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