Genus:
Two chloroplasts with axis and laminae structure;
axis short, laminae also short making the chloroplasts star-shaped
Species: Cell body cylindrical, large, 20-87 μm long, 11-35 μm wide (Photomicrographs of the Fresh-water Algae, 1984). [var. brebissonii]: Cell body cylindridal with both round ends, 30-87 μm long, 14-35 μm wide, L/W=2-4; chloroplasts star-shaped, with a single pyrenoid. (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977). |
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Cylindrocystis brebissonii var. minor W. et G.S. West ?,
cell body 45 μm long, 15 μm wide, L/W=,
x 640, Kenashitai (marsh), Hakkoda mountain, Aomori city, Aomori Pref., Japan, July 17, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Cell body 32-43 μm long, 16 μm wide, L/W=2.0-2.7, x 640
Cell body 52 μm long, 15 μm wide, L/W=3.5, x 640
