Desmids assume a variety of highly symmetrical and generally attractive shapes, among those elongated, star-shaped and rotund configurations, which provide the basis for their classification.
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The conservation charity Plantlife designated the St Just Moors, part of this SSSI, an Important Plant Area for the occurrence of Western Rustwort and the green algae desmids.
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The Plankton species in Baigul is rich comprising 17 genera of green algae, 4 genera of blue-green algae, 10 genera of desmids and 14 genera of diatoms.
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Ehrenberg interpreted these as being originally siliceous and thought them to be desmids ( freshwater conjugating algae ), placing them within his own Recent desmid genus " Xanthidium ".
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Ehrenberg interpreted these as being originally siliceous and thought them to be desmids ( freshwater conjugating algae ), placing them within his own Recent desmid genus " Xanthidium ".
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Between 1858 and 1885 he wrote over 230 scientific papers in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Dublin, the vast majority are short notes on desmids collected in Ireland.
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The other group within the Viridiplantae are the mainly freshwater or terrestrial Streptophyta, which consists of the land plants together with the Charophyta, itself consisting of several groups of green algae such as the desmids and stoneworts . ( The names have been used differently, e . g.
