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Guide to Encyonema obscurum

(Krasske) D.G.Mann 1990

Encyonema Obscurum Guide
Credit: Loren Bahls
  1. Valves up to 7.5 µm wide
  2. Apices rostrate to subcapitate
  3. Apices distinctly “pinched”

Valves are strongly dorsiventral and up to 7.5 µm wide. Apices are rostrate to subcapitate and distinctly “pinched”.