| Cross Index | Geitleria |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Oxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria |
| Compare | Cyanobacteria
Prochlorales Procloron didemni, Prochlorothrix hollandica |
| Contrast | Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Geitleria |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | |
| Morphology | |
| Motility | |
| Specialized structures | Branching is pseudodichotomous, dichotomous and lateral. The sheath becomes heavily calcified and only the cells near the tips of trichomes are able to give rise to a lateral branch or, when an apical cell undergoes and oblique division followed by further divisions of both cells, to a false dichotomy. The ultrastructure of decalcified specimens, including that of pore channels or "pit connections" has been studied by Coute (1982,1985). |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | NO CULTURES OF THIS GENUS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Geitleria |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | Geitleria is a calcified cyanobacterium of limestone caves, together with Scytonema julianum |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Geitleria |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Geitleria |
| First citation | Friedmann,I. 1955. Geitleria calcarea n. gen. et n. sp., a new atmophytic lime-incrusting blue green alga. Bot. Not. 108: 439-445 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 1798 R.W. Castenholz |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 415 |
| References |