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Gamophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidiaceae

 Staurastrum habeebense
(Irénée Marie) Brook et D.B. Williamson
= Actinotaenium habeebense (I. Marie) Brook et D.B. Williamson ??
Staurastrum habeebense Irénée Marie (Coesel & Meesters 2007)

Staurastrum habeebense Genus: Cell body short, radiate in shape; apical view of the cell, triangular, polygonal, ellipsoidal or spindle-shaped; zygospores formed outside of mother cells
Subgenus: lacks arm-like projections (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977)
Species:

Staurastrum habeebense (Irénée Marie) Brook et D.B. Williamson, cell body 38 μm long, 28 μm wide, constriction 23 μm wide, apical view octo-angular, x 640, Fukasaku-gawa Yusuichi, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, May 2002 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Apical view
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Conjugation
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Zygotes
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A cell attacked by a parasitic fungi, Myzocytium Schenk 1858 ?? (Pythiales, Peronosporomycetes, Peronosporomycotina, Heterokonta)
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