heterovalvate
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heterovalvate (not comparable)
- Having different (top and bottom) valves (of a diatom)
- 2015 October 21, “Auxosporulation in Paralia guyana MacGillivary (Bacillariophyta) and Possible New Insights into the Habit of the Earliest Diatoms”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Filaments up to 32 cells long were observed, capped with live heterovalvate end-cells where each possessed one of the initial valves.