| Characiaceae | |
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| Characium hookeri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Chlorophyceae |
| Order: | Sphaeropleales |
| Family: | Characiaceae (Nägeli) Wittrock, 1872[1] |
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Characiaceae is a family of green algae in the order Sphaeropleales.[1] It contains epiphytic or planktonic algae that are unicellular or colonial. The cells are heteropolar, with basal and apical ends having different shapes.[2] The daughter cells are often retained in the cell wall of the old mother cell, whose cell wall becomes gelatinized.[3]
- ^ a b Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. "Characiaceae". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ Komárek, J.; Fott, B. (1983). Chlorophyceae (Grünalgen), Ordnung Chlorococcales. Das Phytoplankton des Süßwassers (in German). E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. p. 1044.
- ^ Wujek, Daniel E. (2016). "The chlorococcalean Green Alga Hydrianum Rabenhorst from North America (Kansas and Michigan)". Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 119: 105–108. doi:10.1660/062.119.0115. S2CID 88296891.