Author(s): Wafaa S. Abou-El-Kheir, W.E. El-Saadawi, and Mona H. Darwish
Article publication date: 1986-06-01
Vol. 4 No. 1 (yearly), pp. 78-84.
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Keywords
botany, algae, moss
Abstract
Thin calcite moulds are formed around the upper parts of the sporophytes of the moss Funaria hygrometrica Hedw. due to association with filaments of the blue- green alga Lyngbya sordida (Zanardini) Gomont. Copious amounts of the filaments surround the upper part of the seta, capsule and calyptra. These moulds are comparable to tufa formation