Widespread in municipal sector and rarely index-relevant.
| Filament position: | within flake and projecting out of flake |
| Branching: | none |
| Movement: | none |
| Growth habit: | straight / slightly curved |
| Aufwuchs: | substantial |
| Constrictions: | absent |
| Sheath: | present, hard to identify |
| Transverse walls: | visible at the uncovered ends of filaments |
| Cell form: | rectangular / square, visible at the uncovered ends of filaments |
| Length of filaments: | > 50 – 500 µm |
| Filament diameter: | 0.6 – 1.5 µm |
| Gram staining: | variable |
| Neisser staining: | negative |