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Closterium aciculare var. subpronum
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This long but very thin desmid is common in Lake Kinneret during the summer-fall. The nucleus is located in the center of the needle-shaped cell, with a chloroplast at each side of the nucleus and extending towards the tips. Like all desmids, it has a typical symmetry, of two half-cells that are mirror image of each other. When abundant, it forms bundles, as seen in this picture.
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aalster
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A Alster & T Zohary, Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, IOLR
