Nitella translucens (Persoon) C.Agardh 1824

Publication Details
Nitella translucens (Persoon) C.Agardh 1824: 124

Published in: Agardh, C.A. (1824). Systema algarum. pp. [i]-xxxvii, [1]-312. Lundae [Lund]: Literis Berlingianis [Berling].

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Publication date: probably September 1824

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

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

Basionym
Chara translucens Persoon

Type Information
Type locality: [No locality cited]; (Persoon 1807: 531) Neotype: E. Williams; 1800; LINN; HS1432-6-1 (Wood & Imahori 1965: 679) Notes: Neotype locality: "Eaton Pool, near Shrewsbury [England]"

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Description
This is a robust species with plants up to 40 cm high. The axis is up to 2 mm in diameter. The sterile branvhlets are only once divided and are seems therefore simple, but they have a terminal corona or crown. The fertile branchlets are 1-2 divided, they are short and formimng dense heads. The dactyls are 2-celled. The species is monoecious. The oogonia are 2-4 together and are up to 500 um long. The oospore is brown, and has prominent ridges and minutely reticulated mambrane. The antheridium is up to 400 um in diameter.

Habitat
Oligotrophic freshwater. Ecology similar to Nitella flexilis and Chara globularis.

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

Last updated: 01 May 2020

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 01 May 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 November 2024

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