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Kingdom Monera: Irma Erika Herawati
Kingdom Monera: Irma Erika Herawati
Traditionally:
1. Order Chroococcales
2. Order Oscillatoriales
3. Order Nostocales
4. Order Stigonematales
Cyanobacteria: Traditional taxonomic
classification in orders
Unicells, as individual cells
1. Order Chroococcales or
colonies. Spores may occur,
never akinetes or heterocysts
Uniseriate trichomes, never
2. Order Oscillatoriales akinetes or heterocysts
unbranched or false-braching
Uniseriate trichomes, with
3. Order Nostocales akinetes and heterocysts.
Unbranched or false-
braching
Uni- or multiseriate trichomes,
4. Order Stigonematales with akinetes and heterocysts.
True branching
Cyanophyta
• Lyngbya majuscula anti tumor
• Spirulina plantensis (syn. Arthrospira
plantensis) and Aphanizomenon flos-
aquae food suplemen
Filum Cyanophyta
• Phyllum : Cyanophyta (blue-green algae)
Lyngbya majuscula
• Class : Cyanophyceae
• Ordo : Oscillatoriales
• Family : Oscillatoriceae
• Genus : Lyngbya
• Species : Lyngbya majuscula