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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Scenedesmaceae

Coelastrum microporum
Nägeli var. microporum

Coelastrum Family (Scenedesmaceae): Colonies of a fixed number of cells (4, 8, 16, 32, or more) arranged 2- or 3-dimensionally; cells spherical, ellipsoidal, polygonal, etc. in shape; chloroplasts 1 or several, plate-like in shape, with 1 pyrenoid; reproduction only by asexual autospores.
Genus: Colonies spherical, with inner empty space; cells attached to each other by a protrusion of cell wall, arranged in a single layer; cell body mostly spherical with some conical or grobular bulges; chloroplasts cup-shaped with a pyrenoid; reproduction by asexual coenobium (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).

Species:


Coelastrum (microporum ?), a colony 23 μm in diam., cell body 9 μm in diam., x 400, x 640, Nasu-shiobara city (formerly Kuroiso city), Tochigi Pref., Japan, March 2001 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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Coelastrum sphericum Nägeli var. sphericum: Colonies of 8, 16, or 32 cells, spherical or ovoid in shape; cells ovoid or cone-shaped, covered with a delicate gelatinous sheath; cells connected to one another by short gelatinous processes; inter cellular space small triangular; cells 6-25 μm diam. (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, 1996).


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