Gamophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidiaceae
(Charophyceae: Zygnematales: Desmidiaceae)
Euastrum elegans
(Brébisson) Kützing var. elegans
Genus:
Variable in shape and in size; mostly longer than wide; strong constriction at center;
semicell pyramid-shaped, apically flattened with indentation (or notch, some species
lack this notch); laterally straight or wavy or indented; one chloroplast in each semicell;
one pyrenoid for each chloroplast
(Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Euastrum elegans (Brébisson) Kützing var. elegans (or var. pseudelegans (Turner) W. et G.S. West ?), x 400, x 640, Uruguay Nov. 1999, photo by Yuuji Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400 :
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
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