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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).
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Xanthidium armatum (Brébisson) Rabenhorst ex Ralfs , cell body 127 μm long, 97 μm wide, L/W= (excluding spiny projections 10 μm long), isthmus 38 μm wide, x 640, No.1, Shimo-Kenashitai (marsh), Hakkoda mountain, Aomori city, Aomori Pref., Japan, September 13, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Images of collecting locality: No.1, Shimo-Kenashitai (marsh), Hakkoda mountain, Aomori city, Aomori Pref., Japan, September 13, 2006 by Y. Tsukii


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