Chara aculeolata Kützing 1832

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).

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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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