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Gamophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidiaceae

 Xanthidium armatum
(Brébisson) Rabenhorst ex Ralfs

Xanthidium Genus: Variable in shape; strong constriction at center; semicell ellipsoidal, polygonal, etc.; cell wall with simple or branching spines, most of them laterally aligned; 4 plate-like chloroplasts in each semicell; one or more pyrenoids in each chloroplast (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Species:

Xanthidium armatum (Brébisson) Rabenhorst ex Ralfs, cell body 115 μm long, 90 μm wide, L/W=1.3 (excluding spines, 8 μm), isthmus 33 μm wide, x 640, Kamino-tanbo (bog/marsh), Tsugaike highland (near Tsugaike Natural Park), Otari village, Nagano Pref., Japan, August 11, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Cell body 115 μm long, 90 μm wide, L/W=1.3 (excluding spines, 10 μm), isthmus 30 μm wide, x 640
Xanthidium

Images of collecting locality: Kamino-tanbo (bog/marsh), Tsugaike highland (near Tsugaike Natural Park), Otari village, Nagano Pref., Japan, August 11, 2006 by Y. Tsukii

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