Desmidium is a genus of green algae, the type genus of the family Desmidiaceae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution in acidic, oligotrophic freshwater lakes and bogs.
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Desmidium is a genus of green algae, the type genus of the family Desmidiaceae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution in acidic, oligotrophic freshwater lakes and bogs.
The genus name of Desmidium is derived from the Greek word 'desmos' (= ribbon, chain or bond).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).