This filamentous desmid with its charcteristic outline has a delicate textured cell wall. Each cell holds two chloroplasts with nucleus between them. Multi layer image using 7 high resolution DIC frames with manual stacking technique using Corel Photopaint. The scale bar indicates 25 µm. Sample from sphagnum pond Dosenmoor near Neumuenster (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany). Images were taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.
A developing filament with only 3 cells is shown. Mulit layer image using 3 high resolution DIC frames with manual stacking technique using Corel Photopaint. Sample from sphagnum pond Dosenmoor near Neumuenster (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany). Images were taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.