Microcoleus tenerrimus Gomont

  • Filed As

    Phormidiaceae
    Microcoleus tenerrimus Gomont

  • Collector(s)

    J. N. F. Wille 1991 d, 24 Mar 1915

  • Location

    Puerto Rico. San Juan. San Juan Antiguo Barrio. San Cristobal, on a wall.

  • Habitat

    On a wall. On a wall.

  • Specimen Notes

    Mounted with the paratype Wille 130 a (barcode 00953508).

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 00953509

    Occurrence ID: acf4a30f-4b8f-4b74-892c-54c97e0344c4

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  • Region

    West Indies

  • Country

    Puerto Rico

  • State/Province

    San Juan

  • County/Municipio

    San Juan Antiguo Barrio

  • Locality

    San Cristobal, on a wall

  • Coordinates

    18.4672, -66.1099

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Distribution

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THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

DARIUS OGDEN MILLS FUND

FRESH-WATER ALGAE OF PORTO RICO

COLLECTED BY PROFESSOR N. WILLE	CrARDÎ

Cemetery San Juan December 29, 1914

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COLLECTED BY PROFESSOR N. WILLE
San Cristobal, San Juan March 24, 1915

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Filaments 15-25 y (np to 50 p) thick, acuminate, scattered
promiscuously among other algae, more o.r less contorted, closed

at the apices when young, dissolving, and the trichomes protrud-
ing at the apices when older, with the trichomes crowded close to
each other in the center and more or less intertwined but finally
separating into separate strands and forming new filaments4
trichomes up to 60 or more within a sheath, mostly parallel, 1.7-
1.9 m diam., pale purplish-drab, not constricted, with acute and in
pait uncinate apices 5 cells homogeneous, 3—4 times as long as the
diam., sheath hyaline, homogeneous, somewhat gelatinous and
irregular along the margin.

Growing on a wall in Fort San Cristobal, San Juan, no.
1991 d, type; on a wall in a cemetery, San Juan, no. 130 a.

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