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Casanova
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:
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:
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,
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(holo: DNA!)
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.
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Monoecious.
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up to
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high, with mucus; apparently rhizomatous (
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Fig. 15
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).
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400 µm wide;
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long, often longer than the sterile branchlets.
<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597E242F97493BFB59" bold="true" box="[98,289,1236,1260]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">Fertile branchlets</emphasis>
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a whorl (
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Fig. 15
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); 2×furcate;
<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597C9D2F97491CFABE" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">primary segments</emphasis>
to
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long;
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47, some without gametangia up to
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long; some much shorter (
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) and with gametangia; 24 tertiary segments
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long.
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a whorl (
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Fig. 15
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); unevenly 2 or 3×furcate;
<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597FDB2E374A45FA3E" bold="true" box="[413,607,1396,1420]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">primary segments</emphasis>
up to
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long;
<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597EEE2ED7499EFA1E" bold="true" box="[168,388,1428,1452]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">secondary segments</emphasis>
57, up to
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long;
<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597CF62ED748D8FA7E" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">tertiary segments</emphasis>
68, up to
<quantity id="E8529B17943327597F122EF74989FA7E" box="[340,403,1460,1484]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="8.0" pageId="26" pageNumber="348" unit="mm" value="8.0">8 mm</quantity>
long.
<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597FA22EF04B18FA7E" bold="true" box="[484,770,1459,1483]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">Fertile and sterile dactyls</emphasis>
similar, bicellulate; 0.50.8 μm long, tapering to a long, conical, acute end-cell (
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Fig. 15
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,
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).
<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597C632EB74A72F9B9" bold="true" box="[549,616,1524,1548]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">Heads</emphasis>
not formed; fertile branchlets somewhat contracted; mucus abundant around the gametangia (
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Fig. 15
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).
<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597FAD2D774A74F9F9" bold="true" box="[491,622,1588,1612]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">Gametangia</emphasis>
conjoined at the fertile branchlet nodes, but antheridia appear to dehisce before oogonia mature (
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Fig. 15
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).
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single or geminate (
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Fig. 15
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,
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), up to 350 µm long;
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up to 15 µm high, upper cells longer (
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Fig. 15
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).
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dark brown, 190230 µm long × 180190 µm wide with 7 or 8 striae (
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Fig. 15
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) with robust, figured, porate flanges ~5 μm high; ornamentation of ropy, sinuous vermiculae and verrucae (
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Fig. 15
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). End-cell impressions quite small (
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Fig. 15
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).
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up to 150 µm in diameter (
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Fig. 15
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).
<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597E242C374949F839" bold="true" box="[98,339,1908,1932]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">Chromosome numbers</emphasis>
not known.
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<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597D742BF24C38FF78" bold="true" box="[818,1058,177,205]" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">Taxonomic notes</emphasis>
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The oospores and other morphological characters of this species are most similar to
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<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597A1B2A474D2AFEA9" bold="true" box="[1117,1328,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">Nitella vermiculata</emphasis>
J.Groves
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from
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; however, the diameter of the vermiculate elements on the oospore wall of
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are much narrower, and
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has a more ropy and perforate flange.
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<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597D742ADC4BCFFE0E" bold="true" box="[818,981,415,443]" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">Recognition</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597D742A914BE2FE5F" bold="true" box="[818,1016,466,490]" italics="true" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">Nitella townsendii</emphasis>
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is monoecious and has bicellulate dactyls and viscous mucus around the gametangia. The dactyls are somewhat in-curved at their tips, and the branchlets have more than five segments at each furcation. The oospores are especially distinctive.
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<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597D7429CE4BC2FD1C" bold="true" box="[818,984,653,681]" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">Distribution</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="2F1536F2943327597D7429824CD8FD6C" blockId="26.[818,1218,705,729]" box="[818,1218,705,729]" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">Rivers and streams around Darwin.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597D7429BF4BDFFCAD" bold="true" box="[818,965,764,792]" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">Etymology</emphasis>
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Named for Simon Townsend, who has collected charophytes in the
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.
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<emphasis id="1DDEEAE0943327597D7428C94C4FFC13" bold="true" box="[818,1109,906,934]" pageId="26" pageNumber="348">Specimens examined</emphasis>
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:
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next to the
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t841 (
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