Chlorophyta
"Green algae. Unicellular or multicellular plants characterized by chlorophylls a and b and various carotenoids. The carbohydrate food reserve is starch. Motile cells have two whiplash flagella at the apical end. True multicellular genera do not exhibit complex patterns of differentiation. Multicellularity has arisen at least three times, and quite possibly more often. There are about 7,000 known species and possibly many more."
Biology of Plants, Fourth Edition, Worth Publishers Inc., Stanford University, Peter H. Raven and Helena Curtis, ©1971
| Taxonomic Hierarchy | |
| Kingdom | Plantae – Vegetal, plants |
| Subkingdom | Viridaeplantae – green plants |
| Infrakingdom | Chlorophyta – green algae |
| Division | Chlorophyta – green algae |
| Direct Children: | |
| Subdivision | Chlorophytina |
| Taxonomic Hierarchy | |
| Kingdom | Plantae – Vegetal, plants |
| Subkingdom | Viridaeplantae – green plants |
| Infrakingdom | Chlorophyta – green algae |
| Direct Children: | |
| Division | Chlorophyta – green algae |
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