Heterokonta: Xanthophyceae: Tribonematales
Xanthonema solidum
By Pavel Skaloud (photo and identification)
Department of Botany,
Charles University, Prague
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Xanthonema solidum,
unbranched filaments, cell cylindrical, clearly constricted at cross walls,
chloroplasts parietal, plate shape, 2 in young, 2-6(-8) in older cells.
Cells 6-20 μm long, 5-7 (-9) μm wide, x 1000, aerophytic on stone,
top of the Borec Hill, Ceske Stredohori Mountains, Czech Republic, November 2001, by P. Skaloud
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