Characeae
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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.
Species
シャジクモ科
FAMILY
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumCharophyta
- ClassCharophyceae
- OrderCharales
- FamilyCharaceae
車軸藻類（しゃじくそうるい）は、種子植物のような姿の藻類である。シャジクモ、フラスコモなどが含まれる。より上位の分類に関する話題は車軸藻綱を参照のこと。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,082
- With media
- 196
- Family
- Characeae
- Collections
- UCMP, UNA, NY, NCU, US, SDSM
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia, Canada
Research
391 papers- The Charophytes (Characeae, Charophyceae) of the Caucasus.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
- Intercellular permeation and cyclosis-mediated transport of a fluorescent probe in Characeae.Biophysical journal · 2023
- Salt tolerance at single cell level in giant-celled Characeae.Frontiers in plant science · 2015
- A Characeae Cells Plasma Membrane as a Model for Selection of Bioactive Compounds and Drugs: Interaction of HAMLET-Like Complexes with Ion Channels of Chara corallina Cells Plasmalemma.The Journal of membrane biology · 2016
- Plastid DNA sequences and oospore characters of some European taxa of Tolypella section Tolypella (Characeae) identify five clusters, including one new cryptic Tolypella taxon from Sardinia, but they do not coincide with current morphological descriptions.Frontiers in plant science · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Description
- Genera
- Ecology
- References
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.
In some treatments, the Characeae includes all the living (extant) species of Charales; this circumscription is followed here. In other treatments, the genus Nitellopsis, which has both extant and extinct species, is placed in a separate family, Feistiellaceae. thumb|Nitellopsis obtusa thumb|Submerged meadow of Chara vulgaris
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Characeae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.