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Chroococcales

An order of the *Cyanophyta containing the unicellular and colonial blue-green algae. The colonial (or palmelloid) forms arise when daughter cells become bound together in a mucilaginous sheath after cell division. Heterocysts and hormogonia are lacking.
 
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