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Ulvophyceae: Ulotrichales: Ulotrichaceae

Geminella pulchra
(Skuja) Ramanathan

Geminella Genus: Filamentous algae without branching, no rhizoids, covered with gelatinous sheath; cell body cylindrical or ellipsoidal, cells attached side by side or separated; a single chloroplast band-form, with a pyrenoid (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species: A linear short filament, straight or slightly curved, covered with a mucilagenous sheath having a radiating strands (only visible when stained); planktonic; cell body cylidrica, straight or slightly curved, both ends rounded, 8-10 μm long, 3-3.5 μm wide; a single chloroplast parietal, plate-like, extending at both ends, without pyrenoids; 1 or several granules present within vacuoles located at both ends of the cell (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 13 (1994).


Geminella pulchra (Skuja) Ramanathan (or Gloeotila sp. ??), cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=, x 640, No.2, Maimeno-ike (pond), Norikura highland, Azumi, Matsumoto city, Nagano Pref., Japan, November 4, 2007 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Geminella pulchra Geminella pulchra

Images of collecting locality: No.2, Maimeno-ike (pond), Norikura highland, Azumi, Matsumoto city, Nagano Pref., Japan, November 4, 2007 by Y. Tsukii


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