Calothrix evanescens N.L.Gardner

  • Filed As

    Rivulariaceae
    Calothrix evanescens N.L.Gardner ( paratype )

  • Collector(s)

    J. N. F. Wille 411, 13 Jan 1915

  • Location

    Puerto Rico. Coamo Springs, on a wall at the entrance to the baths.

  • Habitat

    On a wall at the entrance to the baths. On a wall at the entrance to the baths.

  • Specimen Notes

    Mounted with the type Wille 1776 a (barcode 00937726).

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 00937727

    Occurrence ID: 0bda2bfe-f4ce-4162-8e67-fda27fc0ea14

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  • Region

    West Indies

  • Country

    Puerto Rico

  • Locality

    Coamo Springs, on a wall at the entrance to the baths

  • Coordinates

    18.0372, -66.3736

  • Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

    154.569

  • Georeferencing Method

    Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide, Version 2012. Located coord. of geogr. center of Coamo Thermal Hot Springs. Meas. from coord. to farthest extent of the springs to find linear ext. (143 m). Input info. into MaNIS Georef. Calc. to find uncert. radius (Bounded Area).

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Distribution

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Calothcix evairescens sp. nov.

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Filaments erect or prostrate, straight or curved, rigid, 200-
- 300 ¡j long, 7-8 n diam.; trichomes cylindrical from the basal
heterocyst throughout the larger portion of the length, then
apering to a very narrow, short hair, constricted at the dissep-
iments, 5.5-6.S m diam.; cells cylindrical to dolioform, quadrate
to one-third the diameter long, mostly homogeneous, pale aeru-
ginous to yellowish or honey-color, mostly showing a clear cen-
tral area; cross-walls relatively thick and conspicuous; apical
. cell blunt and rounded, becoming conical in the young stage of
growth; the apical portion soon prolonged into a short hair;
heterocysts single, basal, spherical to subspherical, same diam-
eter as the tricliome; sheath thin, firm, smooth, homogeneous,
hyaline, vanishing at about half way from the base to the apex.

Growing in water among other Myxophyceae and debris,
Jayuya, no. 1776 a, type; on a wall, Coamo Springs, no. 411.

In certain stages in the life cycle of this species it resembles
the genus Microchciete. The hair dies back, the apical portion
becomes dolioform, the terminal cell enlarges and becomes
rounded, and a sheath is secreted. The whole trichome is then
cylindrical with but a single basal heterocyst. When growth
begins at the apex, the diameter begins to diminish, the apical
cell becomes conical, and finally a short hyaline hair is produced.
It is a very distinct species, related in some of its characters to
C. linearis.

22. Calothrix evanescens

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