Some notes on Charophyta collected in the Netherlands West Indies

Some
notes
on Charophyta
Netherlands
West
and
Indies,
collected
North
in
the
Venezuela
Columbia
by
J.S. Zaneveld
(Rijksherbarium,
As far
of the
I
as
species
two
know, only three papers
Netherlands
königlichen
Chara
West
Berlin”, BRAUN records
microcarpa
H.
Curaçao,
be
In
named
once
MOESSL.
einer
Monographie
Willd.
zeylanica
(1911),
peninsula
Venezuelan
La
In
Goajira
The
STROOM
aquatic
(1939);
the
A.
curassavica
and J.
the
BR.,
(A. BR.)
GROVES in
last-named
an
of
excursion
to
studying the
1936 and 1937 he again visited these
peninsula
Margarita
Paraguaná
off the Venezuelan
and
the
Algae and Phanerogams
Phanerogams
were
will be
Charophyta
Colombian
1940).
HUMMELINCK,
(WAGENAAR
inland-waters also
lected.
recorded
f.
which
and
also
der Characeen”
curassavica
HUMMELINCK made
islands and, moreover, a.o. the island of
the
are
recorded.
WAGENAAR
land and freshwater fauna.
various
in
BR.
f.
that of H.
The third paper is
Antillanae
Br.
A.
species
species is
Aruba and Bonaire with the main object
Curaçao,
coast,
These
in which another
1882),
Chara
more
P.
1930 Mr
Nitella
Chara gymnopus A.
Symbolae
is
species
ap.
“Fragmente
viz.
GROVES.
J.
et
URBAN’s
viz.
REICHENB.
hydropitys
to
are
dealing with Charophyta
1858, in “Monatsbericht der
from Paramaribo,
(BRAUN & NORDSTEDT,
now
In
Indies.
Akademie der Wissenschaften,
enumerated in the
from
Leiden).
In
the
have been col-
described
the
by VAN OOSTsubject of the present
paper.
As
one
No
a
result of these
of which, viz.
representative
Though
America
several
(cf.
C.
trips only
fibrosa,
of the
species
Braun,
two
was
other
are
1858;
species of Chara
new
for the
Charophyta
area
genera
recorded from the north
Braun &
were
Nordstedt,
collected.
under discussion.
was
detected.
coast
of South
1882)
so
little
is known of the
Charophyta of the Netherlands West Indian islands
that it is worth
publishing
these few
notes.
Moreover,
a
number of
142
data
ecological
which
gathered,
were
enumerated
are
the
at
same
time.
The
specimens
unnumbered
an
No
the
cf.
Chara
Blumea
fibrosa Ac.
permanent
30
As
I
has
be
to
behind
in ssp.
regarded
the
Cultuurtuin
Hummelinck
/l,
hardness
out
n.6
as
a
golden-brown
As
gymnopitys.
86,
1849,
Abh.
Kon.
—
Ak.
This is the
to
its
in ssp.
our
which
came
agree
or
as
Wiss.
most
plants
Berlin,
common
a
that
are
the
0
—34
C,
new
probably
most
subspecies
was
forms
locality
can
the colour of the
an
only be
ripe oospore;
are
purple-black
immature, the ssp.
cannot
be
species. Therefore
Africa, S. E. Asia and Japan.
in Mem.
no
to
Braun
1882,
species
Ac.
Roy. Berlin
p.
1803,
Nordstedt
as
ceylonica
var.
A.
in the West Indies.
have been
cf.
and
As
most
more
or
H. &
J.
forms of
one
less
According
distinguished,
Braun &
(1906).
are
Nordstedt
plants,
found in the
papers
which
intermediate,
Groves
(1911)
I
in
large, polymorphous
attempt has been made to describe these
be
i,
Braun in
197.
p.
forms,
as
of the writer,
Braun &
description is
272)
Ssp. flaccida
area.
Robinson
regarding all these specimens
a
p.
case
the
number of forms
either
cf.
species,
under the eyes
with
28
165), Chara Cur-
flaccida, .whereas they
C. gymnopus A.
described
were
(1882),
stagnant, probably
polyphylla A. Braun in Hooker’s Journ. Bot.
variability
great
in
—
certainty.
C.
—
299
p.
of
Braun in Hooker’s
1940, p.
otherwise
zeylanica Willdenow
1805
extensive list
(Experimental Garden),
i 19
(1906,
In
synonym.
The ssp. has been recorded from N.
Chara
an
German degrees.
(Zaneveld,
B. Robinson
from Florida,
determined with
p.
A.
flaccida
distinguished from ssp. gymnopitys by
are
For
ssp.? flaccida (A. Br.) Zanev. in
important extension of the known
these
of
description
be found in the literature
to
s
Allen in C.
known
already
extensive
an
are
clayish-mud and shells, crowded with algae;
already pointed
tissii T. F.
the
to
Leiden.
give
C.
—
Wagenaar
HCO
mg
127
Bruz.
162
trench
V 1936,
water with
Cl/1,
mg
at
to
of
exception
added
now
1849, p. 296.
1,
2
Curasao
are
(1940).
ex
1940, p.
Suriname,
Paramaribo,
and
species and forms.
Zaneveld
IV,
Bot.
made
formalin with the
forms; these
the head of the
at
Journ.
been
and various
synonyms,
from
Rijksherbarium
has
attempt
species
cited
specimen
of the
collections
in
preserved
are
forms;
of these last-mentioned
authors.
Another
question referred
to
already in Blumea IV, 1940, p. 206,
143
is
provided by the
into
come
it
pointed
was
of
Chara
that of
f.
1.
VII,
just
27
—
99
33"
in
—
in Braun’s
opinion (1858,
If this will
zeylanica.
foliolosa has place priority
name
I
the type,
see
paper
species
a
have
over
refrain from
to
F.
(T.
H.
Allen)
in
Groves
J.
et
Antill.
Symb.
41.
Tank! di
Aruba,
linck
which,
preceded by
is
which
the
now.
elegans
1911, p.
4)
of the forms of C.
not
in
priority. However, in
(No.
3),
(1898),
Groves
(No.
one
(1805) has
zeylanica
name
J.
zeylanica
did
I
has
name
then the
As
zeylanica.
decision
a
foliolosa
be the case,
to
of H. &
paper
that this
is identic with
361),
prove
a
Chara
Willdenow
named
p.
out
Willdenow’s
name.
after
use
Goudmijn Tibusji,
of
water
stagnant
C, pH 8.5 —9.0,
170
mg
a
Cl/1,
XII
9
354
Wagenaar
1936,
which is
pool,
for
dry
Humme-
several
HCO3/I, hardness
mg
months;
5.8 (im-
mature).
Tanki
Klein Bonaire,
63
in
—
28—
stagnant, probably
0
C, pH 8.4 —8.6,
32
Calbas, 15
permanent
119
Cl/1,
mg
XI
1936, Wagenaar Hummelinck
of
water
102
pool
a
in
coral
limestone;
HCO3/I, hardness 4.9 (plant
mg
large, but slender, oogonia hardly developed).
Tanki
Curasao,
Hummelinck 70
—
Koenoekoe
in stagnant
Hatoen,
water
of
Hato,
15X1936,
Wagenaar
little pool, which is rarely
a
dry;
together with Najas guadalupensis (Spreng.) Morong (cf. Van Ooststroom,
!939,
11
of
p.
707);
28—34°
X 1936,
pool
a
coral
on
without
further
5348a
Plants
—
grasses;
21.1.
Ibid.,
comment,
HCO3/I, hardness
Mamaja,
Hato,
in stagnant, permanent
water
together with Najas guadalu-
Wagenaar
specimen. Ibid.,
Cl/1, 225
mg
Hummelinck
Hato,
mg
s.n.
1909 —To,
—
Bol-
together with Najas guadalupensis.
characterized
articulations, of
about the
mg
Tanki
27—30° C, pH 8.4—8.6, 371
Hato, 1936,
dried
a
404
Ibid.,
—
and shale-detritus;
limestone
hardness
HCO3/I,
Cl/1,
mg
certain).
not
Wagenaar Hummelinck 75a
Echinodorus and
pensis,
dingh
C, pH 8.4 —8.6, 689
identification
(immature;
27.1
by
10
which the last
length.
same
branchlets,
—14
1
—4
Gametangia
containing
ecorticate.
are
produced
at
7—10
of
All bract-cells
the lowest
three
branchlet-nodes.
This form is known from the island of Barbados and from Florida.
2.
f.
VII,
trichacantha
1911, p.
Klein
63c
—
water
hardness
the spine-cells
are
of
(the
4.9
a
pool
on
limestone;
the
diam.
Venezuela, Paraguana, Estanque
Hummelinck
and
hardness
Symb. Antill.
some
4.3
algae;
109
together
28
800 —1200
mg
number of articulations is
longer than
i937> Wagenaar
on limestone and marl;
dorus
Groves in
J.
et
Bonaire, Tanki Calbas, 27 XI 1930, Wagenaar Hummelinck
in stagnant
HCO3/I,
H.
(A. Braun)
41.
0
—32
—
with
of
de
in
the
Santa Fe,
NE
of
water
of
Moruy,
a
little
Najas guadalupensis, Ruppia,
are
not
102
mg
10;
stem).
stagnant
C, pH 8.7—8.9,
(the posterior bract-cells
Cl/1,
frequently
most
121
mg
Cl/1, 256
ventricose
and
mg
18
II
pond
Echino-
HCO3/I,
inflexed).
144
These
have
plants
ulations, of which
bract-cells up
half
long
as
long
to as
the
as
n
branchlets,
—13
the lowest
the
as
ripe oogonium, posterior
oogonium.
The
form
known
was
Gametangia produced
from
Western Texas, Mexican
f.
3.
VII,
inconstans
1911,
41
p.
the island
ones
usually
the
at
1st
to
H.
(Kuetzing)
Chara
—
in
—
West
Key
and
Groves
J.
et
Oerstediana A.
as
Wiss.
Br.
in
Symb. Antill.
C.
et
Cruegeriana
Berlin, 1858, pp. 367, 368.
Plants
HC0 3 /1,
mg
hardness 163 (the lowest articulation frequently
wide, however, sometimes much longer).
with
branchlets,
10—12
of which the lowest and ultimate
of
consisting
1
—3
are
7—10 articulations,
ecorticate.
I did
entirely ecorticate branchlets. Anterior pair of bract-cells
the
from
stagnant
Cl/I, 784
long
of
Tanki di Hofje Savonet, 29 X 1936, Wagenaar Hummelinck
0
water of a well, together with some algae; 28—34
C, 3199
Curasao,
mg
Anterior
and South Carolina.
Boundary
A. Braun in Monatsber. Kon. Ak,
as
artic-
9—14
ecorticate.
are
branchlet-nodes.
3rd
89
containing
and ultimate
lateral and
oogonium,
produced
at
the lowest
1
posterior
—3
half
ones
as
long.
not
as
find
long
as
Gametangia
branchlet-nodes.
Already recorded from the island of Trinidad and from Nicaragua.
f.
4.
guatcmalensis
(Nordst.)
gymnopus A. Braun ssp.
1888,
193; T. F.
p.
1906,
Cura?ao,
76A
—
in
C.
hardness
longer
long
the
H. &
J.
5.
f.
1888,
Bull.
Chara
—
p.
64
Chara
—
New York
Bot.
X 1936, Wagenaar Hummelinck
6
1/hour)
of
Groves
Michauxii
at
spring in coral limestone,
a
7.1
—7.3, 230
(the gametangia developed
lateral
The
at
mg
Cl/1,
the
lowest
± 300
1 —3
incrustated).
usually
ecorticate.
oogonia,
oogonium.
Hitherto known
VII,
18
±
always
having gametangia
by
500
of branchlets is
being
than the
as
(c.
water
plant heavily
number
ulations,
1,
Robinson in
Bron Wadongo, Hato,
branchlet-nodes;
comb.
286.
streaming
HCOj/1,
The
B.
with Najas guadalupensis; 28° C, pH
together
mg
p.
nov.
Allen, Charac. Americ.
guatemalensis (Nordst.)
Gard. 4,
Zanev.,
guatemalensis Nordstedt in Hedwigia 27,
10,
consisting of 6—8 artic-
Anterior bract-cells
and
somewhat
half as
posterior
up
plants differ from the type description in
the lowest node.
ones
The form is
to
not
mentioned
(1911).
from Guatemala and Honduras.
(A.
Braun)
H.
et
J.
Groves
in
Symb.
Antill.
1911, p. 42.
Margarita,
Estanque Lato, W of Boca
Wagenaar Hummelinck
13
—
in stagnant
del Rio, Macanao,
water
of
a
20
V 1936,
pond, together with
145
Najas guadalupensis and
148
HC03/1,
mg
Venezuela,
108
Hummelinck
and
28
C,
—31
C,
30—33°
de
Moruy,
in stagnant, permanent
with
together
pH 8.7—8.9,
pH 6.8—7.1,
mg
71
Cl/1,
2.9.
Paraguana, Estanque
—
hornblende-rock,
0
few algae;
hardness
50
few
Cl/1,
mg
and
algae
1937, Wagenaar
in
pond
a
Najas
HC03 /1,
mg
205
II
18
of
water
limestone
guadalupensis;
hardness
6.1
(ripe
antheridia only).
Plants with
which
the
x
bract-cells
ones
10
—14 branchlets,
lowest
f.
Gametangia
A.
Br.
Gray in Boston
A.
Br.
gymnopus A.
Berlin,
F.
not
ssp.
produced
ecorticate.
Br.
Antill.
Willd. f.
VII,
V,
Nordstedt
America
Humboldtii
1911, p.
Wiss.
18
4.7
—
1845,
264
p.
(the spine-cells
Chara
—
in
1849,
1858, p. 360
Hedwigia
1888,
1,
(Kuetz.)
p.
et
522;
Chara
—
1888,
64 (nomen)
p.
H.
27,
&
Chara poly-
—
Spec. Alg.,
Berlin,
Wiss.
p.
192;
Chara
—
J. Groves in Symb.
42.
in stagnant, permanent
26° C,
algae;
comb.
nov.
America)
Domingo.
Braun in Engelmann
Margarita, Laguna Honda, SE of Juan Griego,
Hummelinck
(S.
and St.
Humboldtii A. Braun in Abh. K5n. Ak.
196;
Charac.
Allen,
Hist.
Kdn. Ak.
var.
p.
Nat.
Anterior
the lowest node.
at
Braun) Zanev.,
(A.
Humboldtii Kuetzing,
var.
1882,
zeylanica
some
articulations, of
9 —12
are
oogonia, posterior and lateral
Humboldtiana A.
Journ.
Braun in Monatsber.
T.
ones
Key West, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti
Humboldtiana
polyphylla
phylla
containing
ultimate
form has been recorded from U.S.A., Caracas
and the islands of
6.
the
/4 the length of the ripe
papilliform.
This
and
pH 6.4—6.7,
shorter
are
149
than
Cl/1,
mg
the
water
16
of
160
V 1936, Wagenaar
pool,
a
diam. of the
together with
HCO s /l,
mg
stem;
the
hardness
number
of
articulations is usually 9).
Plants
with 9—12
branchlets, containing
which the lowest and ultimate
as
long
long
as
as
the
the
oogonium,
oogonium.
lateral
and
Gametangia
of
articulations,
8 —11
ecorticate. Anterior bract-cells
1 —2 are
posterior
produced
ones
up
the
at
to
2nd
half
to
as
4th
branchlet-nodes.
This
form has
Haiti, Portorico,
Braun first
boldtiana”.
(1845) published
7.
VII,
f.
however,
was
name
Braun himself.
tiana” has
recorded from
Croix, from
Kuetzing,
boldtii”, which
by
been
St.
It
the
U.S.A.
this
in
from
this
used
Cuba,
Venezuela.
form under the
1849,
afterwards used
follows
Bahama Islands,
and from
the
name
name
“Hum“Hum-
by the other authors and
that the
name
“Humbold-
priority.
curassavica
1911, p.
42.
(A. Braun)
H.
et
J.
Groves
in
Symb. Antill.
146
NE
Colombian
S of El Pajaro,
manent
of
water
stroom,
1939,
707);
p.
the
26—32°
C,
818
the 3
—
del
Pajaro,
in stagnant,
Cl/1, 448
mg
HCO3/I, hardness
times
3—4
per-
Oost-
as
long
the
as
stem; immature).
consisting of
Plants with 9 —12 branchlets,
which
mg
114
Wrightiana (cf. Van
extraordinarily long, viz.
are
Laguna
Goajira,
pond, together with Najas
a
18.9 (the spine-cells
diam. of
La
Continent,
I 1937, Wagenaar Hummelinck
21
the lowest and
ultimate
ones
are
7—11
articulations,
ecorticate.
Gametangia
of
at
lowest branchlet-nodes.
This form
1864. It has
detected in the island of
was
Cura9ao by Seemann in
yet been found elsewhere.
not
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