image_list image_listE

Gamophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidiaceae or Closteriaceae

Closterium dianae
var. pseudodianae (Roy) Krieger

Closterium dianae Species [ var. dianae ]: Cell body slightly curved, tapered toward both ends, truncated with slanted edges, small pores present at outside of both termini, inner side at center slightly convex, 150-380 μm long, 15-40 μm wide, L/W = 10-12; cell wall smooth; chloroplasts with 5-8 pyrenoids in each chloroplast (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Cell body 160-323 μm long, 20-28 μm wide, L/W=8.3-12; chloroplasts with about 6 laminae; semicells with 4-8 pyrenoids (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 6, 1987).


Closterium dianae var. pseudodianae (Roy) Krieger (or C. ralfsii ?), cell body 275 μm long, 19 μm wide, L/W=14.5, cell wall smooth, small pores present at both ends, x 400, x 640, Shimizu-daira, Nasu town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, September 10, 2005, collected by Eizaburo Tsukii, photo by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Closterium dianae Closterium dianae Closterium dianae Closterium dianae


Please click on images for viewing enlarged.
Copyright Protist Information Server