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Gamophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidiaceae or Closteriaceae

Closterium striolatum
Ehrenberg ex Ralfs 1848

Closterium striolatum 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).
Similar species -- >> C. rostratum;


Closterium striolatum Ehrenberg var. striolatum, cell body 486 μm long, 52 μm wide, L/W=9.3, x 640, No.6, Mizunashi-Yachi, Komado marsh (No.13), Showa village and Tajima town, Fukushima Pref., Japan, May 21, 2007, by Y. Tsukii
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Cell body 440 μm long, 49 μm wide, L/W=9.0, x 200, x 400, x 640
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Images of collecting locality: No.6, Mizunashi-Yachi, Komado marsh (No.13), Showa village and Tajima town, Fukushima Pref., Japan, May 21, 2007, by Y. Tsukii


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