Tolypella glomerata (Desvaux) Leonhardi 1863

Publication Details
Tolypella glomerata (Desvaux) Leonhardi 1863: 129

Published in: Leonhardi, H. von (1863). Weitere Characeen-Fundorte. Lotos 13: 129-132, 145-148.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Tolypella is Tolypella nidifica (O.F.Müller) A.Braun.

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

Basionym
Chara glomerata Desvaux

Type Information
Type locality: "MM. Desvaux et Thuillier l'ont recueillie aux environ de Paris"; (INA 1996: 136) Holotype: in rivulis; PC; herbarium Desvaux (Ahmadi & al. 2012: 388) Notes: Isotype: L, ex herbarium Persoon, ex herbarium Desvaux. Gallia (Ahmadia et al. 2012: 388). See ING entry for Tolypella.

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), clustered in a round mass.

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Description
The plants are up to 20 cm high, usually encrusted and grey in colour. The axis is up to 1 mm in diameter. The sterile branchlets are simple, are 3- 5 celled, have 3- 4 rays and 3- 5 celled end-segment which is much longer than the rays. The end-cells are rounded. Some whorls are forming dense heads. The species is monoecious. The oogonia are 1-3 together, stalked and up to 600 µm long. The oospore is less than 400 µm long, brown to dark brown in colour. The antheridium is up to 400 µm in diameter.

Habitat
Tolypella glomerata is found in shallow alkaline waters, in ditches, ponds, lakes and temporary pools. All the finds in the area are near the coast. T. glomerata is according to Olsen (1944) both winter-annual and summer-annual. The winter-annual germinates in autumn and has ripe oospores in May – June, and the summer-annual germinates in spring has ripe oospores in August –September. Like Tolypella intricata the species is “meteoric”, it colonizes an area and then disappears after a short time

Key Characteristics
In brackish water Tolypella nidifica In freshwater Tolypella glomerata

Similar Species
Tolypella nidifica

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 11 May 2020

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