Gamophyceae: Desmidales: Desmidaceae or Peniaceae
(Charophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidaceae)
Penium margaritaceum
(Ehrenberg) Brébisson in Ralfs 1848
 
Species: Cell body cylindrical, slightly depressed at center, 
68-185 μm long, 
14-22 μm wide; 
chloroplasts with longitudinal ridges; cell wall with small granules arranged longidudinally or sometimes 
irregularly; zygospores spherical or slightly elongated 
(Photomicrographs of the Fresh-water Algae, 1985). 
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Penium margaritaceum (Ehrenberg) Brébisson, 
cell body 92 μm long, 22 μm wide, L/W= 4.5, 
x 400, x 640, Saitama Pref., Japan, May-June 1999 by Y. Tsukii
 50 μm
 100 μm
 150 μm; x 400 : 
 31 μm
 63 μm
 94 μm; x 640
Penium margaritaceum (Ehrenberg) Brébisson, 
cell body 101 μm long, 22 μm wide, L/W= 4.5, 
Saitama Pref., Japan, May-June 1999 by Y. Tsukii
 50 μm
 100 μm
 150 μm; x 400 : 
 31 μm
 63 μm
 94 μm; x 640
Penium margaritaceum, 
cell body 130 μm long, 22 μm wide, L/W= 4.5, 
Saitama Pref., Japan, May-June 1999 by Y. Tsukii
 50 μm
 100 μm
 150 μm; x 400 : 
 31 μm
 63 μm
 94 μm; x 640
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