Image of Micrasterias truncata var. quadrata C. O. Bulnhein 1859

Description:

Sampling date 09/2009. Scale bars indicate 25 µm.

Two images.
Cells shortly after binary fission. The flat-looking connection between the division products is the primary cell wall of the half-cells newly formed during cell division.

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

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Place name: Wetland near Schladming (Austria) 
Latitude: 47.37386     Longitude: 13.823016

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

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