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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Hydrodictyaceae

Pediastrum simplex
Meyen var. echinulatum Wittrock (Photomicrographs of the Fresh-water Algae, 1988) ?
or (Meyen) Lemmermann var. simplex (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977) ?

Pediastrum simplex Genus: Colonies of a fixed number of cells, flat, circular in shape; cell body polygonal in shape, with horn-like projections; cell wall garanulated, wrinkled or notched; chloroplasts plate-like or reticular; asexual reproduction by zoospore; sexual reproduction by isogametes (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Species: Marginal cells with a single, long horn-like process (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 8, 1988).
Var. echinulatum: Colonies without perforations; cell wall densely covered with smallspines (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 11, 1988).
Var. simplex: Colonies of 4, 8, 16, 32 cells, intercellular space absent, cells 20-30 μm long, 6-15 μm wide (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).


Pediastrum simplex var. echinulatum, colony 50 μm wide (including spiny projections), x 640, Sansaku-ike (a pond for walking), Mizumoto Park, Katshika-ku, Tokyo, Japan, October 22, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Pediastrum simplex Pediastrum simplex

Images of collecting locality: Sansaku-ike (a pond for walking), Mizumoto Park, Katshika-ku, Tokyo, Japan, October 22, 2006 by Y. Tsukii


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