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Cosmarium nymannianum Desmid Species Outer Hebrides

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Phylum: Charophyta   Family: Desmidiaceae

Cosmarium nymannianum Grunow 1868

Widespread and locally common in acidic moorland bogs and loch-margins, often with Sphagnum.

References: 
Grunow, A. [in Rabenhorst (1868) Flora Europaea algarum aquae dulcis et submarinae. Sectio III. Algas Chlorophyllophyceas, Melanophyceas et Rhodophyceas complectens].
West, W. & West, G.S. (1905) A Monograph of the British Desmidiaceae, Volume 2.
John, D.M. & Williamson, D.B. (2009) A Practical Guide to the Desmids of the West of Ireland.
Coesel, P.F.M. & Meesters, K.J. (2007) Mesotaeniaceae and Desmidiaceae of the European Lowlands.

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