The chlorophycean genus Jenufa includes chlorelloid green microalgae with an irregularly spherical cell outline and a parietal perforated chloroplast with numerous lobes. Two species of the genus are known from tropical microhabitats. However, sequences recently obtained from various temperate subaerial biofilms indicate that members of the Jenufa lineage do not only occur in the tropics. In th...

Periphyton was cultured and its phytoplankton communities were identified based on morphological features. This included 24 genera belonging to the 6 classes. Highest number of genera was found in Bacillariophyceae followed by Cyanophyceae and Chlorophyceae. Whereas a single genus was documented from class Euglenophyceae, Ulvophyceae and Xanthophyceae. Hence, the study is quite handy for the id...