Family: Colonial; cell body spherical with 2 or more pseudocilia (immobile); chloroplasts one, 2 or 3 in number, with or without pyrenoids (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Genus: Colonies pear-shaped or irregular bulbous in a gelatinous matrix; epiphytic on other algae by a narrowed stalk of the colony; cells evenly scattered at the periphery of the gel, each bearing a pair of long pseudocilia emerging outward (Photomicrographs of the Freshwater Algae, vol. 3, 1985). Colonies small, ovoid in shape, attached to other substrates at one end (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Google Image Search
A. brauniana
or Tetrasporidium ?
cell 10 μm
Sanda
Hyogo, 2001
A. brauniana
cell μm
Kinu-gawa g.p.
Takanezawa
Tochigi, 2004
A. brauniana
cell 8-10 μm
pseudocilia visible
Aquatic botanical g.
Sawara
Chiba, 2004
A. brauniana
cell 8-10 μm
pseudocilia visible
Nagaike park
Hachioji
Tokyo, 2005
A. brauniana
cell 8 μm
Onnenai
Kushiro marsh
Hokkaido, 2005
A. brauniana
cell 10-12 μm
Univ. A.V.M.
Obihiro
Hokkaido, 2005
Apiocystis sp.
cell μm
Tsurugashima
Saitama, 2003
A. brauniana ?
cell 8-10 μm
near Akai wetland
Aizuwakamatsu
Fukushima, 2005
A. brauniana
cell 8 μm
Kanayama c.
Kiyose
Tokyo, 2007