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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Scenedesmaceae

Coelastrum reticulatum
(Dangeard) Senn var. reticulatum

Coelastrum reticulatum 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: Colonies of 8, 16 or 32 cells, spherical in shape, covered by a mucilaginous envelope; often held in multiple coenobia by the remains of mother cell walls; cells connected to adjacent ones by 5 - 7 long, slender processes; intercellular spaces large; cells up to 24 μm diam. (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, 1996).


Coelastrum reticulatum (Dangeard) Senn var. reticulatum ?, colony spherical, 100 μm in diam., cell body 22 μm in diam., x 640, Watari mizube-no-gakkou, riverside park of Abukuma river, Fukushima city, Fukushima Pref., Japan, October 28, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Coelastrum reticulatum Coelastrum reticulatum


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