Nitella confervacea (Charophyta) in Vlaanderen (België): een stand van zaken ...

Nitella confervacea (Charophyta) in Flanders (Belgium): the current situation. – As in much of Europe, the inconspicuous charophyte Nitella confervacea appears to have always been extremely rare in Belgium. Following 80 years without any observations, a few plants were found in a small pond in 2006, shortly after it had been cleared. Shortly after this unexpected ‘resurrection’, the species disappeared again from this site. In 2014, a considerably larger population was found in the northernmost part of Belgium in a peaty pond formerly used to rear fish, and in 2019 a shallow brown coal excavat... Mehr ...