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Volume 50, Issue 1-4, September 2008

Articles

Cyanobacteria in Biological Crusts on Soil and Sub-Aerial Habitats from Different Locations of Eastern India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v50/2008/58219

Published 2008-12-07

  • L. K. Samad
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  • M. Jena
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  • S. P. Adhikary

L. K. Samad
P. G. Department of Botany, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar 751004

M. Jena
P. G. Department of Botany, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar 751004

S. P. Adhikary
P. G. Department of Botany, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar 751004

Abstract

Thirteen species of Cyanobacteria species belonging to eight genera e.g. Phormidium (3), Leptolyngbya (1), Calothrix (1), Anabaena (2), Nostoc (3), Scytonema (1), Fischerella (1), Westiellopsis (1) were recorded in biological crusts from different sub-aerial habitats of Orissa and in the soil crust of NEHU campus, Shillong, Meghalaya.
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