Chlorophyta

Chlorophyta or chlorophytes is a major division of green algae, and is sister taxon to the other major division Charophyta (a paraphyletic group of predominantly freshwater green algae, which form the monophyletic clade Streptophyta after including all land plants) as well as the proposed basal clade Prasinodermophyta, together with whom they form the major primary algae clade Viridiplantae (Plantae sensu stricto).

Chlorophytina is a subphylum within Chlorophyta and includes five classes. It contains the more well-known green algae and is characterized by the presence of phycoplasts.

Picocystis is a monotypic genus of green algae, the sole species is Picocystis salinarum. It is placed within its own class, Picocystophyceae in the division Chlorophyta.

REDIRECT Chloropicaceae

Pyramimonadaceae is a family of green algae.

clade of Chlorophyta