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Gamophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidiaceae or Closteriaceae

Closterium striolatum
Ehrenberg ex Ralfs 1848

Closterium Species: Cell body 180-(210-493)-540 μm long, (24-45)-52 μm wide (cf. C. intermedium < 25 μm), L/W = 8-12, slightly curved, tapered at both ends, not swelled in the middle (cf. C. rostratum), both ends broadly truncated with slanting edges; cell wall brown in color and striated, 5-10 striae in 10 μm; chloroplasts with with 5-9 pyrenoids in each semicells (Illustrations of the japanese fresh-water algae, 1977).
Both ends are obliquely truncate-convex; striae about 20 across the cell; chloroplasts with 5-6 pyrenoids in each semicells; 210-490 μm long, 24-45 μm wide (Phtomicrographs of the fresh-water algae, 1984).


Closterium striolatum Ehrenberg var. striolatum, cell body 255 μm long, 30 μm wide, L/W=, x 400, x 640, Ikei-no-ike (pond), Nasu town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, September 3, 2006, collected by Eizaburo Tsukii, photo by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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