The ultrastructure and taxonomic placement of Diacanthos belenophorus

Eberhard Hegewald and Eberhard Schnepf

fig. 1

Fig. 1. Vegetative cell of the type figure of Diacanthos belenophorus Korš. of Koršikov (1953). The scale is calculated from the type description.


plate 1

Plate 1: Diacanthos belenophorus Korš., strain SAG 42.98, thin sections under the transmission electron microscope.


Figs 2, 3. Cross sections. D = dictyosome, N= nucleus, O = plastoglobuli, P = pyrenoid, S = starch grain.
Fig. 4. Golgi vesicle N = nucleus.
Fig. 5. Oblique section Arrow head: mother cell wall fragment.
Fig. 6. Longitudinal section through a cell with attached bristle.
Fig. 7. Cross sections of bristles.
plate 2

Plate 2: Negative staining of bristles of Diacanthos belenophorus Korš., strain SAG 42.98


Fig. 8. Bristle with attached cell wall fragment.
Fig. 9. Tip of a bristle with fraying filaments, which are sinusoidal.
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Plate 3: Negative staining of bristles of Diacanthos belenophorus Korš., strain SAG 42.98. The scale is for Figs. 10-12.


Fig. 10. Bristle, its substructure appears as rhombic pattern.
Fig. 11, 12. Bristle; its substructure appears as parallel lines.