Chlorophyceae:
Chaetophorales: Chaetophoraceae
Chaetophora pisiformis
(Roth) Agardh
Genus: Filament with branching; cell body cylindrical; a single chloroplast plate-like, slightly curved,
with 1 to several pyrenoids; apical cells pointed or drawn out as hairly projections;
no difference between axial and branching filaments; forming a large clump attached on a substrate
(Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species:
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Similar Genus ->
Cloniophora;
Cladophora;
Chaetophora pisiformis, branching filamentous algae,
cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=,
x 100, x 200, x 400, x 640, Akasaka-numa (pond), Iwatsuki-ku (formerly Iwatsuki city), Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 12, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400 :
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Images of collecting locality:
Akasaka-numa (pond), Iwatsuki-ku (formerly Iwatsuki city), Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 12, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
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