A lower plant of the division Charophyta, such as a stonewort.
Example sentencesExamples
Like many other charophytes desmids have no flagella; they were lost at some point in the group's evolution.
These features suggest that the common ancestor of charophytes and land plants had a life cycle similar to that of charophytes, and that the common ancestor of bryophytes and vascular plants was gametophyte-dominant.
Unlike the other green algae, the charophytes share with plants the phragmoplast method of cell division, and the asymmetric arrangement of their sperm flagella.
An increase in turgor also causes a depolarization in the turgor-regulating charophytes Chara longifolia and Lamprothamnium succinctum.
Only plants and charophytes divide their cells with the aid of a phragmoplast.
Definition of charophyte in US English:
charophyte
nounˈkarəˌfīt
Botany
A lower plant of the division Charophyta, such as a stonewort.
Example sentencesExamples
An increase in turgor also causes a depolarization in the turgor-regulating charophytes Chara longifolia and Lamprothamnium succinctum.
Only plants and charophytes divide their cells with the aid of a phragmoplast.
These features suggest that the common ancestor of charophytes and land plants had a life cycle similar to that of charophytes, and that the common ancestor of bryophytes and vascular plants was gametophyte-dominant.
Like many other charophytes desmids have no flagella; they were lost at some point in the group's evolution.
Unlike the other green algae, the charophytes share with plants the phragmoplast method of cell division, and the asymmetric arrangement of their sperm flagella.