Chara papillosa Kützing 1834

Current name: Chara papillosa Kützing
Red-cyan anaglyph showing end view of node in 3D. Collected by Emma Harris, Norfolk Broads, UK. - 04 August 2014. C.F. Carter (Chris.carter'at'6cvw.freeuk.com

Publication Details
Chara papillosa Kützing 1834: 707

Published in: Kützing, F. (1834). Beschreibung einiger neuer Arten der Gattung Chara. Flora (Jena) 17: 705-707.

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.

Type Information
Type locality: "in lacu salso Mansfeldensi" [Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]; (Kützing 1834: 707) Lectotype (designated by Wood in Wood & Imahori 1965: 100): L; 54646 (Wood & Imahori 1965: 100)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), papillate, covered with papillae (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Created: 29 October 2010 by Anders Langangen.

Last updated: 14 January 2025

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Distributional note
"Chara papillosa occurs in Europe, Asia and Africa. In Europe, it has been recorded sparsely from northern Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Sea in the south, to Russia, the Balkans and Turkey in the east and to France and Great Britain in the west." (Blindow & al. 2024). - (14 January 2025) - M.D. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 14 January 2025. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 08 June 2025