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Chlorophyceae: Chaetophorales: Chaetophoraceae

Chaetophora pisiformis
(Roth) Agardh

Chaetophora pisiformis Genus: Filament with branching; cell body cylindrical; a single chloroplast plate-like, slightly curved, with 1 to several pyrenoids; apical cells pointed or drawn out as hairly projections; no difference between axial and branching filaments; forming a large clump attached on a substrate (Guide book to the "Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae", 1998).
Species:
Similar Genus -> Cloniophora; Cladophora;


Chaetophora pisiformis, branching filamentous algae, vegetative cells μm long, μm diam., x 400, x 640, Japan, October 2000, by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640



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