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Gamophyceae: Desmidales: Desmidaceae or Peniaceae
(Charophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidaceae)

Penium margaritaceum
(Ehrenberg) Brébisson in Ralfs 1848

Penium margaritaceum Species: Cell body cylindrical, slightly depressed at center, 68-185 μm long, 14-22 μm wide; chloroplasts with longitudinal ridges; cell wall with small granules arranged longidudinally or sometimes irregularly; zygospores spherical or slightly elongated (Photomicrographs of the Fresh-water Algae, 1985).

Penium margaritaceum (Ehrenberg) Brébisson, cell body about 153 μm long, 21 μm wide, L/W=7.3, x 640, Maimeno-ike (pond), Norikura highland, Azumi, Matsumoto city (formerly Azumi village), Nagano Pref., Japan, June 8, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Penium
Cell body 193 μm long, 22 μm wide, L/W=8.8, x 640
Penium Penium

Images of collecting locality: Maimeno-ike (pond), Norikura highland, Azumi, Matsumoto city (formerly Azumi village), Nagano Pref., Japan, June 8, 2006 by Y. Tsukii

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