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Chlorophyceae: Palmellales: Palmellaceae

Palmella sp.

Palmella Genus: Colony within a gelatinous bag; cells uniformly arranged at the peripheral matrix; cell body spherical or ellipsoidal without pseudo-flagella; 2-4 cells form a small subset; a single chloroplast cup-shaped, with a pyrenoid (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998). Small colonies planktonic or large ones attached to other substrates (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Species:


Palmella or Planktosphaeria ?, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Horai, Sashi-ohgi, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, October, 2002, by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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