Figure 2.

Morphological study of Dysmorphococcus globosus-HI cells under the light microscope (100×). It has two isokontic flagella (FL and FR), broadly ovoid-shaped lorica (L) around the green individual cell, and an eye spot (ES) or stigma as a thin or streak-like structure (A). Green cells with a 1–2 protruding round pyrenoids (PY) in the center, an urn-like chloroplast (CP), and green cells present in a group are surrounded by a sporangium wall (SW) or the parental lorica (B–G). Asexual reproduction in D. globosus-HI shows the aplanospores that contain 4–16 daughter cells formed per cell (D–G).