Nitella beaugleholii (R.D.Wood) Raam, nom. inval. 2010

Publication Details
Nitella beaugleholii (R.D.Wood) Raam, nom. inval. 2010

Published in: Raam, J.C van (2010). R.D. Wood's "Synopsis of the Characeae" adapted and modified. CD, privately distributed by the author in anticipation of publication..

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Nitella is Nitella opaca (C.Agardh ex Bruzelius) C.Agardh.

Status of Name
The taxonomic or nomenclatural status (or both) of this entity is in some way unresolved and requires further investigation.

Basionym
Nitella tasmanica var. beaugleholii R.D.Wood

Type Information
Holotype locality: Australia: South Australia: Kangaroo I.: creek N of North Coast road , ca. 2 mi SW of Snelling Beach 60-12-29-11 (RDW); (Index Nominum Algarum)

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Description
After J. C. van Raam 2010: Plants dioecious, to 30 cm. high, similarn to var. gelatinifera, but fertile heads spicate and whorled, 2-4 at a node. Axes slender, to 700 u in diameter. Branchlets heteromorphic; fertil, 0.2-0.2 cm. long, compacted into dense heads; sterile, 6-8 in a whorl, 1-3 cm. long, 1-fuecate, terminated by tiny dactyls. Dactyls,fertile, 2-3 celled, end-cell blunt or acute; sterile, 2-celled, 3nd-cell acute, conical. Heads terminal or axillary, often aggregate, 1-4 at a node, 0.5-2.0 cm. long, 0.2-0.4 cm. wide; enveloped in mucus. Gametangia at fertile branchlet nodes. Oospores dark red to black, c. 338 u long and c. 305 u wide; striae of 6-7 low ridges; fossa variable, to 42 u across; membrane clearly granulate. Antheridia? Chromosome number: n=12.

Created: 07 March 2010 by Anders Langangen.

Last updated: 29 September 2019

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 29 September 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2024

 
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