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Description:

Dinobryon (die-know-bry-on) sertularia, a loricate chrysophyte (stramenochrome) alga, the vase-shaped lorica is organic, most species are usually found with the loricae attached to each other to form arborescent colonies. With two flagella, one longer one drawing water towards the cell and a shorter one. With golden plastid. Phase contrast microscopy.

data on this strain.