Chara baltica (Hartman) Bruzelius 1824

Publication Details
Chara baltica (Hartman) Bruzelius 1824: 11, 19

Published in: Bruzelius, A. (1824). Observationes in genus Charae, quae venia ampliss. Ord. Philos. Lund, respondente Eberhard Liljevalch. [Dissertation]. pp. [1]-24. Londini Gothorum: Ex Officina Berlingiana.

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Publication date: February

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Chara is Chara vulgaris Linnaeus.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Chara hispida var. baltica Hartman

Origin of Species Name
Adjective A (Latin), pertaining to the Baltic Sea.

General Environment
This is a brackish species.

Description
The plants are up to 50 cm long, they are not encrusted and therefore green. The axis is to 0.5 -1 mm in diameter. The branchlets are 6-11 in a whorl, each with 6-9 segments. The stem cortex is diplostichous, tylacanthous. The spine cells are normally solitary, occasionally in pairs and usually shorter than the stem diameter. The stipulodes are in two regular rows. The bract cells are 5-7 and the bracteoles are longer than the oogonium. The plant is monoecious. The gametangia are conjoined at the lowest 1-3 branchlet nodes. The oogonium is up to 1.2 mm long. The oospore is black. The antheridia are up to 500-800 m in diameter. Multicellular bulbils are found in the autumn.

Habitat
Chara baltica is a brackish water species, found in salinity between 2- 10 PSU. The species is frequent in the Baltic Sea, and is elsewhere found in coastal lagoons and fiords. It grows on muddy or sandy bottom, from 0.1  4 m depth. C. baltica has both annual and perennial forms, depending on the depth of growth. The annual forms hibernate by bulbils or oospores, while the perennial forms has oospores, swollen nodes Nacktfüssige Zweige or green plants. Fertile plants are found from June to October, but the fertility is normally low. Ripe oospores can be found from July.

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 31 December 2020

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 31 December 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024

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