Nostoc flagelliforme, whose scientific name is Nostoc flagelliforme, is a terrestrial cyanobacteria, which grows in arid and semi-arid desert areas. According to the classification system of the ninth edition of Berger's Handbook of Bacterial Identification, Candida trichoderma belongs to the class of oxygen-producing luminescent bacteria, Nostoc, Nostoc family and Nostoc genus.

Nostoc flagelliforme adheres to the bottom of desert plants. Because of its messy hair and dark color, it is named Nostoc flagelliforme, also known as "ground hair". Nostoc flagelliforme is mainly distributed in arid desert grassland. Nostoc flagelliforme is distributed in Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia and northern Hebei.

The main value of Nostoc flagelliforme

Nostoc flagelliforme is a photosynthetic prokaryote that can fix nitrogen. There are mainly two kinds of cells in its filamentous body: one is vegetative cell, which is green and carries out photosynthesis-absorbing, releasing and synthesizing organic matter; The other is heteroembryonic cells, which are larger in size, thicker in cell wall and lighter in color. It mainly carries out nitrogen fixation-reducing nitrogen in the air to ammonia and synthesizing amino acids.

Nostoc flagelliforme can synthesize organic carbon and organic nitrogen from inorganic carbon and inorganic nitrogen, which is of great significance for improving desert soil and breeding other organisms. Nostoc flagelliforme is known as "the pioneer of developing desert".