Anabaena willei N.L.Gardner

  • Filed As

    Nostocaceae
    Anabaena willei N.L.Gardner ( paratype )

  • Collector(s)

    J. N. F. Wille 1670 a, 12 Mar 1915

  • Location

    Puerto Rico. Ponce. In wet fields.

  • Habitat

    In a ditch in wet fields.

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 00937849

    Occurrence ID: 4679d1ad-4169-40f6-ac89-004555c92b48

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  • Region

    West Indies

  • Country

    Puerto Rico

  • Locality

    Ponce. In wet fields

  • Coordinates

    18.0544, -66.6164

  • Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

    13411.6

  • Georeferencing Method

    Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide, Version 2012. Located coordinates of geogr. center of Ponce. Measured from coord. to farthest extent of the region to find linear ext. (13400 m). Used MaNIS Georef. Calculator to find uncertainty (Bounded Area).

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

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THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN BOTANICAL

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COLLECTED BY PROFESSOR N. WIL1

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Trichomes bright aeruginous, long, relatively straight, deeply
constricted at the dissepiments, 4.8-5.2 m diam., attenuated at
the apices; cells short, mostly quadrate, cylindrical, finely gran-
ular ; apical cell conical; heterocysts cylindrical or somewhat
dolioform, 5-6 n diam., 9-12 u long, hyaline; spores cylindrical,
6.5-8.6 m diam., 15-20 n long, smooth, outer layer slightly brown
in color, densely granular, bright blue-green, 2-3-catenate next
to the heterocysts.

Growing in a pool among other algae, Jayuya, no. 1750, type;
in a ditch, Ponce, no. 1670 a; in a small stream about five kilo-
meters east of Coamo, no. 237.

Anabaena Willei belongs to the Sphaerozyga section of the
genus, as limited by Agardh (Aufzaehlung, 634, 1827) and is
related to A. oscillarioides.

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