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

 Hyalotheca dissiliens
(Smith) Brébisson var. dissiliens (Ling & Tyler 2000)
Brébisson ex Ralfs var. dissiliens (John et al. ed. 2002); Ralfs var. dissiliens (Coesel & Meesters 2007)

Hyalotheca dissiliens Species: Cell body 14-22 μm long, 23-32 μm wide, constriction 22-.30.4 μm wide (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977). Cell body 14-22 μm long, 23-32 μm wide, outline shape transversely rectangular, slightly constricted in the middle, vertically circular (f. dissiliens), sometimes with a slight papilla in opposite disposition (f. bidentula) or three ones equidistantly (f. tridentula); semicells subtrapeziform, lateral margin convex; cell wall punctated; filaments not twisted (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 1, 1984).

Hyalotheca dissiliens, cell body 15-18 μm long, 25 μm wide, x 640, a wetland near Ichinose-enchi (along super forest road), Norikura highland, Azumi, Matsumoto city (formerly Azumi village), Nagano Pref., Japan, June 8, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Hyalotheca dissiliens Hyalotheca dissiliens

Images of collecting locality: a wetland near Ichinose-enchi (along super forest road), Norikura highland, Azumi, Matsumoto city (formerly Azumi village), Nagano Pref., Japan, June 8, 2006 by Y. Tsukii

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