''Closterium setaceum'' is a species of unicellular

charophyte Charophyta () is a group of freshwater green algae, called charophytes (), sometimes treated as a phylum, division, yet also as a superdivision or an unranked clade. The terrestrial plants, the Embryophyta emerged within Charophyta, possibly fro ...

green algae The green algae (singular: green alga) are a group consisting of the Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister which contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/Streptophyta. The land plants (Embryophytes) have emerged deep in the Charophyte alga as ...

in the family

Closteriaceae The Closteriaceae are one of four families of Charophyte green algae in the order Desmidiales (desmids).See the NCBI The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a ...

. It has a worldwide distribution.

References

External links

''Closterium setaceum '' at AlgaeBase
Desmidiales Plants described in 1848 {{Green algae-stub