''Chara globularis'' is a species of

charophyte Charophyta () is a paraphyletic group of freshwater green algae, called charophytes (), sometimes treated as a division, yet also as a superdivision. The terrestrial plants, the Embryophyta emerged deep within Charophyta, possibly from terres ...

green algae The green algae (: green alga) are a group of chlorophyll-containing autotrophic eukaryotes consisting of the phylum Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister group that contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/ Streptophyta. The land plants ...

in the family Characeae. Native to Europe, but widespread among the world, it inhabits fresh and brackish-water environments. The ''Chara globularis'' originally documented was identified as the short-end segment(SH) type, with a black fossa wall containing a granulate, papillate, or fine pusticular pattern. An elongate-end(EL) type was previously thought to belong to this same species, but upon re-examination was determined to be phylogenetically separate from the ''Chara globularis,'' indicating that it was a different species and, thus, being reclassified as the ''Chara leptospira''.

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Charophyta Freshwater algae Plants described in 1799 {{Green algae-stub