Genus: Body more or less ovo-cylindrical; rigid with spirally striated pellicle; often with a short posterior spinous projection; stigma sometimes present; discoidal chromatophores (chloroplasts) numerous and marginal; paramylum bodies usually large and ring-shaped, laterally disposed; without pyrenoids; fresh water (Kudo, 1966).
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L. wangi 70 μm Japan, 199? by H. Yoshino	L. wangi 59 x 25 μm Uruguay, 1999	L. wangi 47 x 21 μm Mihashi Park Saitama, 2002	L. wangi μm Matsubushi Saitama, 2003
L. wangi ? 47 x 28 μm Mihashi Park Saitama, 2002	L. wangi ? 37 x 19 μm Uruguay, 1999	L. wangi ? μm Kodama town Saitama, 2003	L. wangi ? μm Naruto Chiba, 2003

Similar species --> L. fusiformis; L. steinii; L. teres;

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