BioImages (UK)
BIOTA
(living things)
MONERA
(prokaryotes)
CYANOPHYTA
(cyanobacteria, blue-green "algae", chloroplasts)
NOSTOCALES
(an order of unbranched filamentous cyanobacteria)
NOSTOCACEAE
(a family of cyanobacteria)
Anabaena
(a genus of cyanobacteria)
Record
Anabaena
is also a member of:
Lower Plants
(via Cyanophyta)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Anabaena (a genus of cyanobacteria)

Warning: Identification questionable
Date: 16 August 2005
OS grid ref: SU76
Lat/Lon: 51° 20' N, 0° 60' W
Location: Vice County: North Hampshire, VC12, England
Record Summary: in Coelosporium algal bloom, washed up at margins of lake
Identification Notes: Trichome with obvious mucilage layer. Heterocyst of distinctive shape.

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