Chara aculeolata Kützing 1832
Current name:
Chara aculeolata Kützing
Red-cyan anaglyph. Antheridial shield cells. Collected by Paul Furnborough, Peterborough, UK. Stacked BF image - 12 July 2012. C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com)
Publication Details
Chara aculeolata Kützing 1832: 843
Published in: Reichenbach, L. (1832). Flora Germanica excursoria ex affinitate regni vegetabilis naturali disposita, sive principia synopseos plantarum in Germania terrisque in Europa media adjacentibus sponte nascentium cultarumque frequentius / auctore Ludovico Reichenbach, Consil. aul. Reg. Saxon. Dr. Philos. Medic. Chir. Hist. Nat. Prof. Musei Reg. zoolog. et mineralog. Praefect. Horti bot. acad. Dresd. direct. Acad. et Societ. plur. sodali. [...] ; Insunt plantae: Acrobastae et Phylloblastae. Accedit: I. Conspectus generum et clavis systemate sexuali linnaeano. [...] Vol. 2. pp. 843-873 addenda et corrigenda. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Apud Carolum Cnobloch (Dresden, gedruckt in der Gärtner'schen Buchdruckerei).
Original description: 
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Chara is Chara vulgaris Linnaeus.
Status of Name
The taxonomic or nomenclatural status (or both) of this entity is in some way unresolved and requires further investigation.
Type Information
Type locality: "Im Brachteiche bei Tennstädt in Thüringen; Kützing" [Sachsen, Germany]; (Reichenbach 1832: 843) Lectotype: L; (Wood & Imahori 1965) Notes: Germany: Thüringen: near Tennstadt; collector: Kützing (INA).
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Description
The plants are from 5 to 80 cm long and always encrusted. The axis is 0.5 1.5 cm
in diameter. The internodes are long and each node has whorls with 8-12 branchlets,
each with 7-9 segments. The stem cortex is diplostichous, tylacanthous. The spine
cells are more or less developed, and varying from papillous to the length of the stem
diameter, solitary or in clusters of 2-3, and they are often scattered.
The plant is monoecious. The gametangia are conjoined at the 3-4 lowest branchlet
nodes. The oogonium is solitary, up to 1.3 mm long. The oospore is brown to dark
brown. The antheridium is up to 500 m in diameter.
Habitat
Chara aculeolata a freshwater species which can tolerate slightly
brackish water. It is found in Chara- and Potamogeton lakes and is bound to lime-rich
localities. It grows on marl gyttje.
The species is often found green in the winter. The fructification takes place in
June September, and ripe oospores are found from July.
Created: 14 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 15 April 2020
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 15 April 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 01 November 2024
