Desmid of the month
March 2016

Actinotaenium mooreanum

A. mooreanum may be distinguished from other small-sized Actinotaenium species  by its perfectly elliptic, hardly constricted cells. Often the cell sinus is hardly visible. Semicells have a lobo-stelloid chloroplast containing a single, more or less central pyrenoid. In the Netherlands, A. mooreanum is a rare species, only known from some wet moorland sites in the province of Drenthe.