Lychnothamnus (Rupr.) Leonh.

Casanova, Michelle T. & Karol, Kenneth G., 2023, Charophytes of Australia’s Northern Territory - I. Tribe Chareae, Australian Systematic Botany 36 (1), pp. 38-79 : 40

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https://doi.org/ 10.1071/SB22023

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10979027

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scientific name

Lychnothamnus (Rupr.) Leonh.
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Lychnothamnus (Rupr.) Leonh. View in CoL , Lotos 13: 57, 72 (1863), p.p.

Chara sect. Lychnothamnus Rupr., Beitr. Pflanzenk. Russ. Reiches 3: 11–12 (1845). Type: Lychnothamnus barbatus (Meyen) Leonh.

Monoecious. Plant axis corticated or cortex reduced to a few filaments growing down from the axial nodes. Stipulodes in one whorl (haplostephanous), branchlets ecorticate, bract cells elongate (> 8 mm) and verticillate. Gametangia arranged on the branchlet nodes side-by-side, usually two antheridia with a central oosporangium. Gametangia originating from different initial cells. Helical cells of the oosporangium terminated by a coronula of five cells. Oospores with a calcified covering (gyrogonite).

Lychnothamnus View in CoL has one species in Europe, with representatives in China ( Han and Li 1994), India ( Wood and Imahori 1965), the United States ( Karol et al. 2017), and several fossil representatives ( Martin-Closas and Ramos 2005).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Charophyta

Class

Charophyceae

Order

Charales

Family

Characeae

Loc

Lychnothamnus (Rupr.) Leonh.

Casanova, Michelle T. & Karol, Kenneth G. 2023
2023
Loc

Chara sect. Lychnothamnus Rupr., Beitr. Pflanzenk. Russ. Reiches

Lychnothamnus Rupr. 1845: 11
1845
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