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Charales is an order of freshwater green algae in the division Charophyta, class Charophyceae, commonly known as stoneworts. Depending on the treatment of the genus Nitellopsis , living (extant) species are placed into either one family ( Characeae ) or two (Characeae and Feistiellaceae ).
The plant body is a gametophyte.It consists of the main axis (differentiated into nodes and internodes), dimorphic branches (long branch of unlimited growth and short branches of limited growth), rhizoids (multicellular with oblique septa) and stipulodes (needle-shaped structures at the base of secondary laterals).
Charophyceae is a class of charophyte green algae. AlgaeBase places it in division Charophyta. [1] Extant (living) species are placed in a single order Charales, [2] commonly known as "stoneworts" and "brittleworts".
Characeae is a family of freshwater green algae in the order Charales, commonly known as stoneworts. They are also known as brittleworts or skunkweed , from the fragility of their lime-encrusted stems, and from the foul odor these produce when stepped on.
The Zygnematophyceae, formerly known as the Conjugatophyceae, generally possess two fairly elaborate chloroplasts in each cell, rather than many discoid ones. They reproduce asexually by the development of a septum between the two cell-halves or semi-cells (in unicellular forms, each daughter-cell develops the other semi-cell afresh) and sexually by conjugation, or the fusion of the entire ...
C. vulgaris in its natural habitat.. Chara vulgaris, the common stonewort, [1] is a green alga species in the genus Chara.Chara vulgaris has spikes between its bark cells in contrast to the similar Chara contraria.
Streptophyta (/ s t r ɛ p ˈ t ɒ f ɪ t ə, ˈ s t r ɛ p t oʊ f aɪ t ə /), informally the streptophytes (/ ˈ s t r ɛ p t ə f aɪ t s /, from the Greek strepto 'twisted', for the morphology of the sperm of some members), is a clade of plants.
The Embryophytes emerged either a half-billion years ago, at some time in the interval between the mid-Cambrian and early Ordovician, or almost a billion years ago, during the Tonian or Cryogenian, [15] probably from freshwater charophytes, a clade of multicellular green algae similar to extant Klebsormidiophyceae.