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

Penium polymorphum
Perty

Penium polymorphum Species: Cell body cylindrical or ellipsoidal, tapered to both ends, 35-79 μm long, (16-21)-36 μm wide; both ends broadly rounded; cell wall thin, brownish in color, finely lined (15-18/10 μ) (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).


Penium polymorphum Perty, cell body 66 μm long, 25 μm wide, L/W=2.6, x 640, No.1, Yokotashiro, Oze-ga-hara (Oze marsh), Katashina village, Gunma Pref., Japan, October 6, 2007 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Penium polymorphum Penium polymorphum Penium polymorphum

Images of collecting locality: No.1, Yokotashiro, Oze-ga-hara (Oze marsh), Katashina village, Gunma Pref., Japan, October 6, 2007 by Y. Tsukii


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