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Asterionella

Asterionella

Forms star-shaped floating colonies of cells up to 100 um long, and is common in lakos. There is also a form of Tabellaria (71) which has colonies similar in size and shape but whose cells are recognised by their longitudinal septa and by the knee-like swellings at the centre of each cell..















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