Genus:
Two chloroplasts with axis and laminae structure;
axis short, laminae also short making the chloroplasts star-shaped
Species: Cell body cylindrical, large, 20-87 μm long, 11-35 μm wide (Photomicrographs of the Fresh-water Algae, 1984). [var. brebissonii]: Cell body cylindridal with both round ends, 30-87 μm long, 14-35 μm wide, L/W=2-4; chloroplasts star-shaped, with a single pyrenoid. (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977). |
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Cylindrocystis brebissonii var. minor W. et G.S. West ?,
cell body 49 μm long, 15 μm wide, L/W=3.3,
x 640, Onnenai, Kushiro marsh, Kushiro city, Hokkaido, Japan, October 16, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Cell body 41 μm long, 14.5 μm wide, L/W=2.8, x 640
Cell body 48 μm long, 16 μm wide, L/W=3.0, x 640
Cylindrocystis brebissonii var. minor W. et G.S. West ?,
cell body 56 μm long, 15 μm wide, L/W=3.7,
x 640, Onnenai, Kushiro marsh, Kushiro city, Hokkaido, Japan, October 16, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
