Flora of New Zealand Desmids Volume I

H Croasdale & E A Flint
1986
Descriptions of all the Saccoderm and some of the Placoderm desmids (including Micrasterias), 218 taxa in all. There are keys for identifying the genera and species, an annotated list of habitats, some ecological comments, a large number of literature references, and seven ecological data tables. The preface includes an account of the morphology of the desmid cell (with text figures), and a brief history of freshwater phycology in New Zealand.

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