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Observations on Staurastrum capitulum

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Staurastrum capitulum Brébisson 1848

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: Staurastrum amoenum Hilse 1866
                               Staurastrum capitulum var. amoenum (Hilse) Rabenhorst 1868
                               Staurastrum capitulum var. dimidio-minus Grönblad 1964
                               Cylindriastrum capitulum (Brébisson) Palamar-Mordvintseva 1982

Sampling date 06/2024. Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Two images.

First:	Synoptic representation of the cell surface.
Second:	Optical cross-section through the cell showing the pyrenoids.

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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 04/2007. Scale bar indicates 10 µm.

Place name: Bog near Salzburg (Austria)
Latitude: 48.068516 Longitude: 12.954134

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

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