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Guide to Mastogloia elliptica

(C.Agardh) Cleve in Schmidt et al. 1893

Mastogloia Elliptica Guide
Credit: Loren Bahls
  1. Partecta all of same size
  2. Striae uniseriate
  3. Raphe branches sinuous

Valves are elliptic to linear-elliptic with bluntly rounded ends. Partecta are all the same size. Striae consist of single rows of coarse areolae. Raphe branches are sinuous (not straight).

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