Desmidiales and
Zygnematales –
Archaeplastida
Observations on Mesotaenium chlamydosporum
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Mesotaenium chlamydosporum De Bary 1858
Most likely ID: n.a.
Basionym: n.a.
Add’l Synonyms: Palmogloea chlamydospora De Bary ????
Palmogloea clepsydra Wood 1871
Mesotaenium clepsydra (Wood) Wolle 1884
Sampling date 06/2024. Scale bars indicate 25 µm.
Four images.
Optical journey through a group of cells lying in a common mucilaginous mass. The gelatinous layers around the individual cells are visible; the short sticks in the mucilaginous mass are symbiotic bacteria.
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Place name: Wetland Lauchseemoor, Fieberbrunn (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.46954439 Longitude: 12.53826499
Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.
Sampling date 06/2024. Scale bars indicate 10µm.
Three images.
Optical journey through a group of cells lying in a common mucilaginous mass. The gelatinous layers around the individual cells are visible; the short sticks in the mucilaginous mass are symbiotic bacteria.
Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!
Place name: Wetland Lauchseemoor, Fieberbrunn (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.46954439 Longitude: 12.53826499
Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.
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