Explore: Semicells

outline with two semicells. Semicells are ovate-pyramidal with a broad, flat base; the lower angles are rounded, and the tip of the semicell is truncate.

halves, called semicells. The semicells are joined at the middle of the cell, where there is a slight constriction called an isthmus. Semicells are slightly

identical halves called semicells. Cells are about as broad as long, 42–76 μm long and 40–72 μm wide excluding the spines. Semicells are subelliptical to

divides and forms new semicells in the same manner as other (Cosmarium-type) desmids. After cytokinesis occurs and the new semicells develop, the primary

chain or bond). Desmidium consists of cells with two halves, called semicells; the cells are attached to each other at their ends, forming filaments

Cells are cylindrical with two identical halves called semicells; the isthmus (where the two semicells join) may be slightly constricted. Some species may

outline, divide into two halves called semicells. The cells are typically 140–180 μm long and 65–85 μm wide. Semicells have a pair of basal lobes and a pair

constriction (an isthmus), where the two halves (called semicells) of the cells are joined. Semicells are widened at the base and truncate at the apex. At

portions called semicells that are almost entirely filled with chloroplasts, with a nucleus that lies at the center where the two semicells are joined together

carbohydrates for energy storage. The cell-wall, of two halves (termed semicells), which, in a few species of Closterium and Penium, are of more than one