Charophytes of Australia’s Northern Territory – II. Tribe Nitelleae

- Casanova, Michelle, Karol, Kenneth

Title
Charophytes of Australia’s Northern Territory – II. Tribe Nitelleae
Creator
Casanova, Michelle; Karol, Kenneth
Date
2023
Type
Text; Journal article
Identifier
http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/194019
Identifier
vital:18295
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1071/SB22029
Identifier
ISSN:1446-5701
Abstract
This study of Northern Territory charophytes deals with the tribe Nitelleae in family Characeae. We recognise 16 species of Nitella for the Territory. The list includes seven previously described species (Nitella belangeri, N. biformis, N. congesta, N. heterophylla, N. micklei, N. myriotricha and N.tumulosa, of which N. belangeri and N. tumulosa are newly recorded for the Australian flora), and nine newly described species (N. acanthospora, N. boreali-australis, N. crocodylus, N. limosa, N.martinii, N. nitida, N. oollooensis, N. silicea and N. townsendii). Of the five previously reported Nitella species in the Northern Territory (N. hyalina, N. myriotricha, N. penicillata, N. pseudoflabellata and N. subtilissima), only N. myriotricha is recorded in this study, because the other records were based on erroneous identifications or localities. All Nitella species described here can be distinguished on the basis of their morphology and reproductive arrangement. Keys, illustrations and descriptions of all the species are provided.
Publisher
CSIRO Publishing
Relation
Australian Systematic Botany Vol. 36, no. 4 (2023), p. 322-353
Rights
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Rights
Copyright @ 2023 The Author(s)
Rights
Open Access
Subject
Charophyte; Morphology; Nitella; Northern Territory; Oospore; Sp. nov; Taxonomy; Wetlands.
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