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Chlorophyceae: Chlamydomonadales (Volvocales): Chlamydomonadaceae
Volvocida: Chlamydomonadina: Chlamydomonadidae

Chlamydomonas asymmetrica
Korschikoff in Pascher 1927

Chloromonas Species: Cell body longitudinally assymmetrical (one side more domed than another), 13-16 μm long, 6-10 μm wide, papilla present, with a flattened apex; chloroplast parietal, asymmetrically located at one side; a pyrenoid at central-lateral; stigma rounded, located anterior to the pyrenoid (near equator); nucleus at posterior half of the cell body.
[var. gallica Bourrelly 1951]: Cell body ovoid, 14-22 μm long, 7-16 μm wide; both corners of papilla slightly extruded becoming dichotomous; stigma elliptical; sexual reproduction anisogamy.
[var. minima Bourrelly 1961]: Anterior more sharpened; papilla conical; "Ausmaße" ? small (8 x 4 μm).
[var. triangularis Ettl 1965]: Cell body triangular in shape, 8-11 μm long, 6-10 μm wide; pyrenoid large. (Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa 9, Chlorophyta I, 1983).


Chlamydomonas asymmetrica var. gallica Bourrelly 1951 ?, cell body 12-14 μm long, μm wide, x 640, Naruto town, Chiba Pref., Japan, September 2003 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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