''Cylindrospermum'' is a genus of
filamentous cyanobacteria found in terrestrial and aquatic environments. In terrestrial ecosystems, ''Cylindrospermum'' is found in soils, and in aquatic ones, it commonly grows as part of the
periphyton
Periphyton is a complex mixture of algae, cyanobacteria, heterotrophic microbes, and detritus that is attached to submerged surfaces in most aquatic ecosystems. The related term Aufwuchs (German "surface growth" or "overgrowth") refers to the col ...
on aquatic plants. The genus is
heterocystous (
nitrogen-fixing) cyanobacteria.
References
Nostocaceae
Cyanobacteria genera
Taxa named by Friedrich Traugott Kützing
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