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Gamophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidiaceae or Closteriaceae

Closterium dianae
var. minus (Wille) Schröder

Closterium dianae Species [ var. dianae ]: Cell body slightly curved, tapered toward both ends, truncated with slanted edges, small pores present at outside of both termini, inner side at center slightly convex, 150-380 μm long, 15-40 μm wide, L/W = 10-12; cell wall smooth; chloroplasts with 5-8 pyrenoids in each chloroplast (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Cell body 160-323 μm long, 20-28 μm wide, L/W=8.3-12; chloroplasts with about 6 laminae; semicells with 4-8 pyrenoids (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 6, 1987).


Closterium dianae, cell body 160 μm long, 17 μm wide, L/W=9.4, x 640, Kuroiso Park, Nasu-shiobara city (formerly Kuroiso city), Tochigi Pref., Japan, August 2003 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Conjugation
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