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Chlorophyceae: Chlorococcales: Hydrodictyaceae

Pediastrum duplex
Meyen var. reticulatum

Pediastrum duplex Genus: Colonies of a fixed number of cells, flat, circular in shape; cell body polygonal in shape, with horn-like projections; cell wall garanulated, wrinkled or notched; chloroplasts plate-like or reticular; asexual reproduction by zoospore; sexual reproduction by isogametes (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Species: Colonies of 8-32 (rarely 4, 64 or 128 cells) with large intercellular space; inner cells H-shaped, trapezoid to rectangular when matured; outer half of the marginal cells prolonged into two horn-like processes with a tuft of long bristles; daughter colonies formed in a vesicle released from mother cell; cell wall smooth (Photomicrographs of the fresh-water algae, 1994).


Pediastrum duplex var. reticulatum, young colony (left) of 16 cells, 46 μm in diam., mature colony (right) of 8 cells, 65 μm in diam., x 640, near Ayu-kawa bridge, Motoyurugi, Fujioka city, Gunma Pref., Japan, December 11, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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