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Bacillariophyta—the diatoms

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Achnanthes: heterovalvular, one valve with and one without a raphe, flexed in girdle view, either solitary or in<br />

chains joined at the valvular surface, attached to substrate either by mucilage pad or by a stalk at the valve<br />

apex, valves ellipitical with rounded or protracted apices, striation and central area variable.<br />

http://craticula.ncl.ac.uk/EADiatomKey/html/Achnanthes.html<br />

Sometimes the striation and central areas of the raphed and<br />

rapheless valve can be different

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