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Gamophyceae: Desmidales: Mesotaeniaceae
(Charophyceae: Zygnematales: Mesotaeniaceae)

Cylindrocystis crassa
De Bary

Cylindrocystis Genus: Two chloroplasts with axis and laminae structure; axis short, laminae also short making the chloroplasts star-shaped
Species: cell body ellipsoidal, 28-60 μm long, 17-31 μm wide (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Similar genus -->> Zygnema; Penium; Mesotaenium;


Cylindrocystis crassa De Bary (or C. brebissonii ?), cell body 34.5 μm long, 22 μm wide, L/W=1.6, x 640, a marsh pond near Meigetsuso (Refuge), North of Higashidaiten, Azuma mountains, Yonezawa city, Yamagata Pref., Japan, July 1, 2007 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Cylindrocystis crassa Cylindrocystis crassa

Images of collecting locality: a marsh pond near Meigetsuso (Refuge), North of Higashidaiten, Azuma mountains, Yonezawa city, Yamagata Pref., Japan, July 1, 2007 by Y. Tsukii


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