Nitella flexilis
Nitella flexilis is a freshwater[2] species of characean algae that is used as a model organism for its large cell size and relative ease of cultivation in the laboratory.
Description
A robust species growing up to a meter long with axes up to 1mm wide. Branches in whorls once or twice divided.[3]
Distribution
The species has been recorded from several counties in Ireland. From the Eglinton Canal in Galway;[4]and in Counties Down and Londonderry;[5]River Dorree in Clare Island Co. Mayo 2004.[6]
References
- ^ Straminipilous Fungi: Systematics of the Peronosporomycetes, Including Sccounts of the Marine Dtraminipilous ProtIsts, the Plasmodiophorids, and Similar Organisms. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2001. ISBN 0-7923-6780-4.
- ^ "Nitella flexilis (Linnaeus) C. Agardh". http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=27202. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
- ^ Ed. Guiry, M.D., John, D.M., Rindi, F. and McCarthy, T.K. 2007. New Survey of Clare Island. Volume 6: The Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae. Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 13: 978-1-904890-31-7
- ^ Pybus, C. and O'Halloran. P. 2009. Distribution of some submerged aquatic macrophytes in the Eglinton Canal, Galway, Ir. Nat. J. 30: 51 - 53
- ^ Morton, O. in Hackney, P. 1992. The Flora of the North-east of Ireland. Institute of Irish Studies and The Queen's University Belfast. ISBN 0 85389 446 9
- ^ Ed. Guiry, M.D., John, D.M., Rindi, F. and McCarthy, T.K. 2007. New Survey of Clare Island. Volume 6: The Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae. Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 13: 978-1-904890-31-7