Desmids –
Archaeplastida (Part)

Observations on Spirogyra spec.

Position in the EOL taxonomic tree. Please click on the tree view below to access EOL (Encyclopedia of Life).

Spirogyra Link, 1820, nom. cons.

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Sampling date 08/2007. Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Two images.

First:	Chloroplast ribbons with pyrenoids.
Second:	Optical cross-section showing the nucleus.

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Place name: River Eider near Achterwehr (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Latitude: 54.308254 Longitude: 9.953706

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

Sampling date 09/2010. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1), 25 µm (2).

Twoimages.

First:	The picture clearly shows the thick gelatinous envelope and the banded chloroplast.
Second:	Close-up. We can see the nucleus with its central nucleolus. The suspension of the nucleus with fine cytoplasmic filaments indicates that almost the whole cell is filled with a large vacuole. The parietal chloroplasts are also lying surrounded by cytoplasm.

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Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany)
Latitude: 53.135032 Longitude: 14.348738

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

Sampling date 10/2011. Scale bars indicate 100 µm (1), 50 µm (2, 3).

Three images.

First:	A young fimalent with its holdfast had mounted itself on a slide that had been lying in the water for two weeks.
Second:	Detail: Holdfast.
Third:	Detail: Cells with their chloroplasts and cell nuclei.

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Place name: Pond near the Bodden bay Schwarzer Peter, Hiddensee (German Baltic Sea)
Latitude: 54.514946 Longitude: 13.082471

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.

Sampling date 06/2013. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.

Place name: Wetland Mittermoos near Fieberbrunn (Tyrol, Austria)
Latitude: 47.47998695 Longitude: 12.5240922

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Canon EOS 600D. DOF image.

Resting spore (zygote) of Spirogyra.

Place name: Ponds near Hausen (Germany)
Latitude: 49.886491 Longitude: 9.206450

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera DSLR type.

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Observations on Spirogyra spec.

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