Definition of Order Charales

1. Noun. Small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis: stoneworts.

Exact synonyms: Charales
Generic synonyms: Protoctist Order
Group relationships: Charophyceae, Class Charophyceae
Member holonyms: Characeae, Family Characeae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Charales

order Bennettitales
order Berycomorphi
order Blastocladiales
order Branchiura
order Bryales
order Campanulales
order Caprimulgiformes
order Carnivora
order Caryophyllales
order Casuariiformes
order Casuarinales
order Caudata
order Cestida
order Cetacea
order Charadriiformes
order Charales (current term)
order Chelonethida
order Chelonia
order Chiroptera
order Chlorococcales
order Chytridiales
order Ciconiiformes
order Cilioflagellata
order Coccidia
order Coleoptera
order Collembola
order Columbiformes
order Colymbiformes
order Commelinales
order Coniferales

Literary usage of Order Charales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"The stoneworts (order Charales) are the most complex of the green algae. The plant body (Fig. 192, A) consists of long, jointed stems, which bear circles of ..."

2. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"The stoneworts (order Charales) are the most complex of the green algae. The plant body (Fig. 192,^4) consists of long, jointed steins, which bear circles ..."

3. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"... at the nodes, whorls of cylindrical leaves which in turn bear leaflets; sometimes encrusted with lime. Growth apical order Charales. ..."

4. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1903)
"Class and order, Charales. Family, Characeae. Stoneworts. The stoneworts are algae which are found growing in the bottom of ponds, lakes, or slowly flowing ..."

5. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... Class Charophyceae, order Charales. 386. The Charales are by some thought to represent a distinct class of algae standing near the mosses, perhaps, ..."

6. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... order Charales. 386. The Charales are by some thought to represent a distinct class of algae standing near the mosses, perhaps, because of the ..."

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