Blue-Green Algal Diversity from Central Bihar, India

Rinku Bharati; Shyam Kishore; Vinay Kumar Singh; Seshu Lavania

doi:10.21756/cab.v4i2.1

Rinku Bharati Department of Botany, University of Lucknow, Lucknow.226007, India.
Shyam Kishore Department of Botany, Rajat P. G. College, Chinahat, Lucknow 226002, India.
Vinay Kumar Singh Department of Botany, University of Lucknow, Lucknow.226007, India.
Seshu Lavania Department of Botany, University of Lucknow, Lucknow.226007, India.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21756/cab.v4i2.1

Keywords: Blue -green algae, Diversity, Morphotaxonomy.

Abstract

Present study deals with morphotaxonomic study of 21 taxa belonging to the class Cyanophyceae (Blue-green algae). These taxa were collected from fourteen freshwater habitats of four districts viz. Patna, Nalanda, Vaishali and Samastipur from central Bihar. These recorded taxa belonging to 11 genera, 21 species of 10 families; viz. Microcystis (4 sp.), Merismopedia (2sp.), Sphaerocystis (1 sp.), Synechococcus (1 sp.), Coelosphaerium (1 sp.), Oscillatoria (4 sp.), Phormidium (3 sp.), Leptolyngbya (1 sp.), Planktothrix (1 sp.), Gloeotrichia (1 sp.), Spirulina (2 sp.).