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Taxonomy
Chara was named by Linnaeus (1753). It is extant.
It was assigned to Characeae by Knowlton (1919), Lakhanpal et al. (1976) and Chauhan (1991); to Charoideae by Van Itterbeeck et al. (2007); and to Charoidea by Carignano (2012).
It was assigned to Characeae by Knowlton (1919), Lakhanpal et al. (1976) and Chauhan (1991); to Charoideae by Van Itterbeeck et al. (2007); and to Charoidea by Carignano (2012).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1753 | Chara Linnaeus |
| 1919 | Chara Knowlton |
| 1976 | Chara Lakhanpal et al. |
| 1991 | Chara Chauhan |
| 2007 | Chara Van Itterbeeck et al. p. 62 |
| 2012 | Chara Carignano |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Chara Linnaeus 1753 [stonewort]
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†Chara cehlerti Rao 1955
†Chara estanciana Hannibal 1918
†Chara glomerata Lesquereux 1883
†Chara indica Rao and Rao 1939
†Chara malcolmsonii Sowerby 1840
†Chara peritula Cockerell 1908
†Chara rajahmundrica Rao and Rao 1939
†Chara sahnii Rao and Rao 1939
†Chara sampathii Rao and Rao 1939
†Chara sausari Sahni and Rao 1943
†Chara springerae Knowlton 1902
†Chara stantoni Knowlton 1893
†Chara verdiana Axelrod 1958
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available
Age range: base of the Kimmeridgian to the top of the Holocene or 157.30000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (49 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | USA (Colorado) | Charophyta indet. (52919 52920) | |
| Berriasian | United Kingdom (England) | Chara sp. (77058) | |
| Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Spain (Cataluña) | Chara sp. (159019) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | India (Manharashtra) | Chara malcolmsonii (63896) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Brazil (Minas Gerais) | Chara sp. (83300 83301) | |
| Early/Lower Paleocene | India (Madhya Pradesh) | Chara sausari (181126) | |
| Paleocene | USA (Utah) | Chara spp. (39885) | |
| Paleocene | Peru | Chara subcylindrica, Chara sp. (176125) | |
| Paleogene | India (Karnataka) | Chara medicaginula, Chara turbinata, Chara cehlerti (224755) | |
| Paleogene | India (Andhra Pradesh) | Chara caelata, Chara helicteres, Chara medicaginula, Chara oehlerti, Chara strobilocarpa, Chara subglobosa, Chara turbinata, Chara wrightii, Chara indica, Chara rajahmundrica, Chara sahnii, Chara sampathii (224754) | |
| Gashatan | China (Nei Mongol) | Chara sp. (71076) | |
| Ypresian - Lutetian | Algeria (Bechar region) | Chara sp. (36612) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene | Pakistan (Northwest Frontier) | Chara sp. (51856) | |
| Bridgerian | USA (Wyoming) | Chara sp. (16296) | |
| MP 13 | Germany (Eifel) | Chara sp. (24201) | |
| Lutetian | Libya | Chara sp. (42125) | |
| Priabonian | United Kingdom (England) | Chara sp. (39643) | |
| Late/Upper Eocene | United Kingdom (England) | Chara lyellii (40298) Chara spp. (39838) Chara tuberculata (40099 40102 40859 40861 40862 40881) | |
| Agenian | Switzerland (Fribourg) | Chara notata (203089) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene | Haiti (Sud) | Chara woodringi (31243) | |
| Miocene | Switzerland (Zürich) | Chara notata (46330) | |
| MN 4 | Switzerland (Zürich) | Chara notata (46268) | |
| MN 5 | Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg) | Chara sp. (175727) | |
| Tortonian | Turkey (Yalova) | Chara aspera, Chara globularis (184470) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Kansas) | Chara globularis (18046) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian - Blancan | USA (Indiana) | Chara sp. (18320) | |
| Turolian | Spain (Valencia) | Chara sp. (40758) | |
| Pliocene | USA (Nevada) | Chara verdiana (35908) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | India (Panjab) | Chara rantzieni, Chara surazpurica (51106) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | India (Haryana) | Chara sp. (224756) | |
| Piacenzian | Germany (Thuringen) | Chara zoberbierii (22783) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Pleistocene | South Africa (Western Cape) | Chara sp. (110489) | |
| Rancholabrean | Mexico (Sonora) | Chara sp. (20495) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | Chara spp. (164903 164904 164905 164906 164912 164914) | |
| Holocene | India (Uttarakhand) | Chara sp. (228762) |