Tribonema vulgare; cells with H-shaped tranverse septa (arrowheads). Each cell has several lens-shaped chloroplasts, which is in contrast to Microspora and Binuclearia, two genera of algae which also have H-shaped transverse septa separating the cells, but have a single chloroplast. |
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Tribonema vulgare; crop of the above image. |
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Tribonema vulgare; focus on the chloroplasts. The number of chloroplasts of this species is >4 per cell. |
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Location: Witten, Gebiet Hammerteich, wall of sandstone |
Habitat: puddle in sandstone |
Date: 25.10.2011 |
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