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Pleurotaenium, one of many desmids - most of which have the appearance of mirror imaged cells joined together, but typically with only one nucleus. With cellulose cell wall, bright green chloroplasts. Phase contrast micrograph.
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Pleurotaenium, one of many desmids - most of which have the appearance of mirror imaged cells joined together, but typically with only one nucleus. This is a detail of the ribbon like plastids with nuerous refractile pyrenoids. Differential interference contrast.
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Pleurotaenium, one of many desmids - most of which have the appearance of mirror imaged cells joined together, but typically with only one nucleus. With cellulose cell wall, bright green chloroplasts. This is an elongate species. Differential interference contrast.
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Differential interference contrast.
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Collected from Cumloden Swamp on October 7, 2002.