Abstract:From March 2008 to April 2009, the morphological taxonomy of Microcystis collected from several typical scene lakes/ponds in Guangzhou was studied. Eleven Microcystis taxa had been identified totally as M. aeruginosa Kützing, M. botrys Teiling, M. firma Kützing, M. flosaquae Wittrock, M. ichthyoblabe Kützing, M. novacekii Komárek, M. pallida (Farlow) Lemm., M. pseudofilamentosa Crow, M. smithii Komárek & Anagnostidis, M. viridis A. Braun and M. wesenbergii Komárek. Their morphological characters were described and photoed under light microscope, and the morphological differences among Microcystis species were compared.
