#tabellaria

[wild-e-eep]

Smooth, wiggly algae going with the flow. If I look at them under a microscope, I'm sure they'll be even flowier and wigglier, right?

No: it's mostly weirdly hinged rectangles.

There are a few normal looking cylindrical algal filaments in there as well.

[sealedbeastnue]

tabellaria algae colonies

I just really like kawaii nature shit ok

[diatomsoffinland-blog]

Tabellaria flocculosa

Valve convex in the middle with ends inflated

Edge of the valve with delicate to coarse spinules

Valves less than 10um wide, only a single rimoportula near the middle of the valve

Found in sample 2A66

(2/3, p. 442 - keys out p. 69)