Chlorophytina

Chlorophytina
	Composite image to illustrate the diversity of Chlorophytina. Top left: Ulva. Top right: Caulerpa. Bottom left: Bornetella. Bottom right: Dictyosphaeria.
Scientific classification
(unranked):	Viridiplantae
Division:	Chlorophyta
Subphylum:	Chlorophytina
Classes
	Chlorodendrophyceae Massjuk 2006; Chlorophyceae Wille; Trebouxiophyceae Friedl 1995; Ulvophyceae K.R.Mattox & K.D.Stewart 1984;

The Chlorophytina are a proposed basal Tetraphytina clade. It is currently seen as sister of the Pedinomonadaceae. It contains the more well-known green alga and is characterized by the presence of phycoplasts.

Below is a consensus reconstruction of green algal relationships, mainly based on molecular data et al.

glaucophyta

Viridiplantae

Prasinodermophyta

	Palmophyllophyceae (prasinophyte clade VI)

	Prasinodermophyceae

Chlorophyta

	Mamiellophyceae (prasinophyte clade II)

	Pyramimonadophyceae (prasinophyte clade I)

Chlorophytina

Nephroselmidophyceae (prasinophyte clade III)

	Picocystophyceae (prasinophyte clade VIIC)

	Pycnococcaceae (prasinophyte clade V)

Chloropicophyceae (prasinophyte clade VIIA & VIIB)

Tetraphytina

Pedinophyceae

Chlorodendrophyceae (prasinophyte clade IV)

Trebouxiophyceae

	Ulvophyceae

	Chlorophyceae

Streptophyta

Mesostigmatophyceae

Mesostigma viride

	Spirotaenia

	Chlorokybophyceae

streptofilum

Klebsormidiophyceae

Phragmoplastophyta

Charophyceae (Stoneworts & musk grasses)

Coleochaetophyceae

	Zygnematophyceae

	Embryophytes (land plants)

green algae

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