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Gamophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidiaceae

Cosmarium obsoletum
(Hantzsch) Reinsch var. obsoletum

Cosmarium obsoletum Species [ var. obsoletum]: Cell body medium in size, broad elliptical (wider than length), 34-(39-50) μm long, 42-(48-53)-54 μm wide, isthmus 15.5-(21-25) μm wide; semicells semielliptical or depressed semicircular, cell wall at basal corner thickened like a papillae; cell wall punctated and dotted.
[ var. sitvense ]: Cell body relatively large in size, 57-(69-78) μm long, 67-(69-78) μm wide, isthmus 30-(39-42) μm wide (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).


Cosmarium obsoletum (Hantzsch) Reinsch var. obsoletum, cell body 44 μm long, 48 μm wide, isthmus 20 μm wide, x 640, Omine-numa (pond/marsh), Tsukiyono town, Gunma Pref., Japan, September 2003 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Cosmarium obsoletum Cosmarium obsoletum Cosmarium obsoletum

Cosmarium obsoletum var. sitvense (left) and C. obsoletum var. obsoletum (right), cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Omine-numa (pond/marsh), Tsukiyono town, Gunma Pref., Japan, September 2003 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Cosmarium obsoletum Cosmarium obsoletum


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