Tags: Green Alga.
Charales is an order of pondweeds algae in the division Charophyta. They are green plants believed to be the closest relatives of the green land plants. Linnaeus established the genus Chara in 1753. Most are found in fresh water but some charophytes have been found in ephemeral saline lakes in Australia healthy and photosynthesizing at twice the salinity of seawater.
