Species:
Cell body broad ellipsoidal, cylindrical, or inverted ovoid, both ends rounded,
20-32 μm long, 13-27 μm wide; cellwall thick;
covered by two layers of gelatinous sheaths; papilla broad, short, rounded at corners;
length of flagella nearly the same as that of cell body; chloroplast cup-shaped, filling whole cell;
stigma rounded, at equator or slightly anterior; nucleus centrally located; two apical contractile
vacuoles at the base of flagella.
[var. subporosa (Skuja) Ettl 1993]: Cell body larger (26-28 x 25-32 μm); inner cellwall finely porous; sexual reproduction by heterogamy (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983). |
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Gloeomonas tecta,
cell body 18 μm long, 11 μm wide,
double-layred gelatinous sheath 2.5 μm in thickness,
x 640, Okubo Ryoke (picnic-no-mori), Akigase park, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, February 27, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Cell body 29 μm long, 25 μm wide,
double-layred gelatinous sheath 2.5 μm in thickness,
stigma elongated about 3 μm long, x 640
