Species: Colonies of 8, 16, 32 or 64 cells, up to 100 μm in diam.; cell body spherical, with a small wart-like process, up to 15 μm in diam.; cells connected to adjacent cells by 1-3 strands; a single chloroplast parietal, plate-like, with a pyrenoid (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 8, 1988).

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C. polychordum colony 27 μm φ Kasuga Fukuoka, 2001	C. polychordum colony 20, 29 μm φ Kuroiso Tochigi, 2001	C. polychordum colony 28 μm φ Kashiwa Chiba, 2002	C. polychordum colony 25 μm φ Takasaka Higashi-Matsuyama Saitama, 2002
C. polychordum colony 40 μm φ Shiroyama Park Okegawa Saitama, 2006

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