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Gamophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidiaceae
(Charophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidiaceae)

Closterium acerosum
(Schrank) Ehrenberg ex Ralfs, 1848

Species: 250-(396-576)-790 μm long, 25-(33-84) μm wide; cell body large, slightly curved; both termini tapered; pyrenoids 7-15 in each semicell (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977). Cell body slightly curved, gradually attenuated toward the truncated ends, which somewhat recurved due to the covexity of the inner margin near the ends; inner margin straight or slightly concave, outer margin convex, 300-500 μm long, 32-50 μm wide, L/W=9-14; cell wall smooth and colorless or sometimes delicately striated and yellowish-brown in color; chloroplasts with ridges containing 7-11 pyrenoids in central row (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 1, 1984).


Closterium acerosum (Schrank) Ehrenberg ex Ralfs, tape No. 0123, time code 4808, Higashi-hiroshima city, Hiroshima Pref. Japan, September 1998 by Y. Tsukii


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