Image of Closterium striolatum Ehrenberg ex Ralfs 1848

Description:

Sampling date 04/2007. Scale bars indicate 100 µm.

Chloroplasts with stellate shape in cross-section. The inset shows the delicate surface texture of cell wall surface in high resolution (Planapochromat 63/1.4). The usually seen longitudinal stripes are not yet developed.

First cell developed from a cystozygote. In species with girdle bands, first cells are characterized by the fact that they are without them!

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

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

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