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Ultrastructure d'une cyanophycée aérienne calcifiée cavernicole:Scytonema julianum (Frank) Richter (Hormogonophycideae, Nostocales, Scytonemataceae)

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The ultrastructure of the atmophytic lime-encrusted filamentous blue-green algaScytonema julianum (Frank) Richter which grows in caves, is studied here for the first time. The cytology of this organism is compared with that of another filamentous and lime-encrusted cyanophycea,Geitleria calcarea Friedmann, which grows in the same biotope. The authors also discuss the nomenclature of this quite rare species.

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Couté, A., Bury, E. Ultrastructure d'une cyanophycée aérienne calcifiée cavernicole:Scytonema julianum (Frank) Richter (Hormogonophycideae, Nostocales, Scytonemataceae). Hydrobiologia 160, 219–239 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00007137

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