Genus: Cells are equal in size (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Planktonic; colony within a gelatinous sheath; cell body spherical, elliptical or pear-shaped; 4 daughter cells
attached to a filament dichotomously radiating from the center of the colony;
a single chloroplast cup-shaped, with a pyrenoid.
Species: |
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
