Tolypella nidifica (O.F.Müller) A.Braun 1857
Current name:
Tolypella nidifica (O.F.Müller) A.Braun
T. nidifica f. groenlandica
Publication Details
Tolypella nidifica (O.F.Müller) A.Braun 1857: 344, 348
Published in: Braun, A. (1857). Über Parthenogenesis bei Pflanzen. Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1856: 311-376.
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This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Tolypella.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Conferva nidifica O.F.Müller
Type Information
Type locality: inter Fioniam & Lalandiam in fundo ad littora; (INA 1996)
General Environment
This is a brackish species.
Description
Tolypella nidifica is up to 20 cm in length, dark brownish-green in colour and unincrusted. The axis is up to 1 mm broad. The sterile branchlets are simple. The fertile whorls are forming dense heads. The branchlets are once divided, and have normally only one node (rarely two) which has 2-4 rays. The end segments are 3-5 and the end-cells are obtuse. The species is monoecious. The oogonia are clustered 2-4, globose and up to 600 µm long. The oospore is black to dark wine red and up to 500 µm long. The antheridium is less than 500 µm in diameter.
T. nidifica f. groenlandica differs from the type by having a very long unbranched terminal process, in the specimen (see photo) this is 6 cm long and 1 mm broad (Langangen 1996).
Key Characteristics
End-cells obtuse, with sterile branchlets. Large plants in brackishwater.
Similar Species
Tolypella glomerata. T. antarctica, T. normaniana
Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 05 May 2020
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 05 May 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 November 2024
