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Nitellopsis obtusa (N.A.Desvaux) J.Groves

Publication details
Nitellopsis obtusa (N.A.Desvaux) J.Groves 1919: 127

Original publication: Groves, J. (1919). Notes on Lychnothamnus Braun. Journal of Botany, London 57: 125-129.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Nitellopsis is Nitellopsis stelligera (Bauer) Hy.

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

Basionym
Chara obtusa N.A.Desvaux

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), obtuse, blunt (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chara obtusa N.A.Desvaux 1810
Tolypellopsis obtusa (N.A.Desvaux) A.Beguinot & L.Formiggini 1907

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Chara ulvoides A.Bertoloni 1825
Chara stelligera A.Bauer 1829
Nitella stelligera (A.Bauer) Kützing 1843
Nitella ulvoides (A.Bertolini) Kützing 1843
Nitella stelligera var. ulvoides (A.Bertolini) Kützing 1849
Nitella bertolonii Kützing 1857
Lychnothamnus stelliger (Bauer ex H.Reichenbach) A.Braun 1882
Tolypellopsis stelligera (Bauer) W.Migula 1890
Nitellopsis stelligera (Bauer) Hy 1890
Tolypellopsis ulvoides H.Wille 1891
Nitellopsis aculeolata M.Soulat-Ribette 1892
Nitellopsis obtusa var. ulvoides (Bertoloni) J.Groves 1922
Nitellopsis obtusa f. ulvoides (A.Bertolini) R.D.Wood 1962

General environment
This is a Marine/Freshwater species.

Common names

(as Nitellopsis obtusa (N.A.Desvaux) J.Groves)
English: Starry Stonewort (Stewart & Church 1992).

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Tolypellopsis stelligera (Bauer) W.Migula)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Reyes Prósper 1910).

(as Nitellopsis obtusa (N.A.Desvaux) J.Groves)
Europe: Balearic Islands (Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998), Britain (Stewart & Church 1992, Bryant & Stewart 2002, Whitton et al. 2003), France (Wood & Imahori 1965), Germany (Wood & Imahori 1965, Täuscher 2012), Italy (Wood & Imahori 1965), Nordic (Langangen 2007), Romania (Wood & Imahori 1965, Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Russia (Europe) (Wood & Imahori 1965), Spain (Aboal 1985, Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998).

North America: USA (Geis 1980).

South-west Asia: India (Wood & Imahori 1965).

Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006, Zhang et al. 2010), Japan (Kasaki 1964, Wood & Imahori 1965, Brodie et al. 2009).

Key references
Bryant, J.A. & Stewart, N.F. (2002). Order Charales. In: The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. (John, D.M., Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. Eds), pp. 593-612. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cirujano, S, Cambra, J., Sánchez Castillo, P.M., Meco, A. & Flor Arnau, N. (2008). Flora ibérica algas continentales. Carófitos (Characeae). pp. [1]-132, 125 figs. Madrid: Real Jardín Botánico.

Hu, H. & Wei, Y. (2006). The freshwater algae of China. Systematics, taxonomy and ecology. pp. [4 pls of 16 figs], [i-iv], i-xv, 1-1023. China: www.sciencep.com.

Krause,W. (1985). Über die Standortsansprüche und das Ausbreitungsverhalten der Stern-Armleuchteralge Nitellopsis obtusa (Desvaux) J.Groves. Carolinea 42: 31-42.

Moore, J.A. (1986). Charophytes of Great Britain and Ireland. B.S.B.I. Handbook No. 5. Illustrated by Margaret Tebbs. Distribution maps prepared by Dorothy Green. pp. [i-ii], 1-140, 26 figs, 17 maps. London: Botanical Society of the British Isles.

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Nitellopsis&species=obtusa

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Nitellopsis&Species=obtusa

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 31 December 2011 by Anders Langangen

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1069 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Geis, J.W., Schumacher, G.J., Raynal, D.J. & Hyduke, N.P. (1981). Distribution of Nitellopsis obtusa (Charophyceae, Characeae) in the St. Laurence River: a new record for North America. Phycologia 20: 211-214, 1 fig, 1 table.
Geis,J.W. (1980). Distribution of Nitellopsis obtusa (Charophyceae, Characeae) in the St Lawrence River: a new record for North America. Phycologia 20(2): 211-214.
Groves,J. (1922). Nitellopsis obtusa in Northern India. J. Botany (London) 60: 54-55.
Katsuhara, M., Mimura, T. & Tazawa, M. (1990). ATP-regulated ion channels in the plasma membrane of a characeae alga, Nitellopsis obtusa. PLANT PHYSL 93(1): 343-346.
Krause,W. (1985). Über die Standortsansprüche und das Ausbreitungsverhalten der Stern-Armleuchteralge Nitellopsis obtusa (Desvaux) J.Groves. Carolinea 42: 31-42.
Nozaki, H., Kasaki, H., Sano, S. & Watanabe, M.M. (1994). Extinction of the natural populations and possibility of the revival of the Japanese Nitellopsis obtusa (Characeae). Proc. Jap. Soc. Pl. Tax. 10(2): 45-50.
Pericàs, J.J. & Martínez Taberner, A. (1983). Nitellopsis obtusa (Desv. in Lois.) J. Groves i Nitella tenuissima (Desv.) Kütz., dues carofícies noves per a la flora de les Balears. Boll. Soc. Hist. Nat. Balears 27: 209-212.

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Anders Langangen in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 May 2013.

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