text: Description: Colony usually 2‒4 celled, cells retained within the persistent mother cell wall, cells of the 2 or 4-celled colonies lying in the same plane or tetrahedrally arranged; 4 cells encircled by one or more dark-brown, usually appearing X-shaped, gelatinous bands; cells oval to spherical, separated within the colony from each other by the dark colored bands; cell wall thick, lamellated; chloroplasts single, massive, usually with a single pyrenoid but indistinct in adult cell; cells 15‒30 μm in diameter, colony up to 55 μm in diameter.
  This species is probably cosmopolitan, and usually rarely occurs associated with submerged aquatic plants in swamp, shallow reservoir and ponds.
  Description: Colony free-floating, spherical, 4, 8, 16 or 32 celled, with intercellular spaces of hexagonal or rounded; cells angular, connected to neighboring cells by 5‒6 truncated short processes, but each cell without any process on the outer face of the cells; cells 11‒12 μm in diameter.