Identify that alga:
Web-based key to genera -2: Filaments

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branched
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Colonies and coenobia
+chloroplast
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planktonic,
with sheath
 
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planktonic,
without sheath  
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 attached
cushion

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 attached,
flat plate
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attached,
sheath

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Colonies and coenobia : Cyanobacteria
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planktonic,
with sheath
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Unicells

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 + chloroplast(s)
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non-flagellate cells
without case
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flagellate cells

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no chloroplast:
Cyanobacteria
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  FILAMENTS   Click on the thumbnail for a larger image
 

Unbranched

 

Branched

 

UNBRANCHED FILAMENTS

 
 

cells in a single series (filament uniseriate)

 
 

cells in more than one series (filament multiseriate)

  Schizomeris
 

Uniseriate

 
    Chloroplast absent (cyanobacterium)*
    Chloroplast an axile band or plate
    Chloroplast a parietal band (circles round periphery of cell)
    Chloroplast(s)disc-shaped
    Chloroplast stellate (star-shaped)
    Chloroplast a dense network*
    *If the chloroplast shape is not distinguishable, there may not be one, or it may be too dense: check all possibilities further  
         

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John Kinross