Anacystis pulchra N.L.Gardner

• Region

  West Indies

• Country

  Puerto Rico

• Locality

  Maricao, on soil by the road toward Monte Montoro

• Coordinates

  18.1727, -66.9969

• Geodetic Datum

  WGS84

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

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THE PLANKTONIC FRESHWATER SPECIES OF MICROCYSTIS

Francis Drouet & William A. Daily, 1939

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THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

DARIUS OGDEN MILLS FUND

FRESHWATER ALGAE OF PORTO RICO
COLLECTED BY PROFESSOR N. WILLE
MARICAO	FEBRUARY 12-15, 1915

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Anacystis pulchra sp. nov.

Plate 4, figure 43

Colonies spherical, 45-70 \\ (up to 150 m) diam., free, contain-
ing 32-64 (up to 128) cells, not forming a stratum; cells not
congested in the colony, spherical to very irregular in outline,
7.5-10 n diam., aeruginous, homogeneous, remaining in sheaths
for some time, forming groups of 4-16 before the teguments
become homogeneous; resting spores of the same shape as the
cells, 11-14 [i diam., with a dense, thin, coral-red wall, smooth
or very finely granular; tegument firm, smooth and rigid on the
surface, more or less lamellose, coral-red, or pink, deeper color
on the surface and on the separate tegument, paler in the gen-
eral mass.

Growing with other Myxophvceae on the soil by the road
toward Monte Montoro, Maricao, no. 1094, type.

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Determined by Francis Drouet and William A. Daily

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43. Anacystis pulchra

Early s,tages in the development of the colony at
the left, a mature colony at the right................................. x 500

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