Gamophyceae:
Desmidales: Mesotaeniaceae
(Charophyceae: Zygnematales: Mesotaeniaceae)
Cylindrocystis crassa
De Bary
Genus:
Two chloroplasts with axis and laminae structure;
axis short, laminae also short making the chloroplasts star-shaped
Species:
cell body ellipsoidal, 28-60 μm long, 17-31 μm wide
(Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
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Zygnema;
Penium;
Mesotaenium;
Cylindrocystis crassa De Bary (or C. brebissonii ?),
cell body 34.5 μm long, 22 μm wide, L/W=1.6,
x 640, a marsh pond near Meigetsuso (Refuge), North of Higashidaiten, Azuma mountains, Yonezawa city, Yamagata Pref., Japan, July 1, 2007 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Images of collecting locality:
a marsh pond near Meigetsuso (Refuge), North of Higashidaiten, Azuma mountains, Yonezawa city, Yamagata Pref., Japan, July 1, 2007 by Y. Tsukii
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