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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Dictyosphaeriaceae

Dictyosphaerium pulchellum
Wood var. pulchellum

Dictyosphaerium reniforme 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: Cell body spherical, 3-10 μm in diam., attached to radially, dichotomously branched filaments; a single chloroplast cup-shaped, with a pyrenoid (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 2, 1984).
Similar genus -->> Planktosphaeria; Westella;


Dictyosphaerium pulchellum or D. reniforme ?, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Kijioka Castle Ruin, Kodama town, Saitama Pref., Japan, June 2003 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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