The Chlorophytina are a proposed basal

Tetraphytina The Tetraphytina (Cavalier-Smith 2008) or 'core Chlorophyta' are a proposed derived Chlorophyta clade. The basal Tetraphytina clades are the Pedinophyceae Pedinophyceae is a class of green algae in the division Chlorophyta Chlorophyta or ...

clade A clade (), also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. Rather than the English term, ...

. It is currently seen as sister of the

Pedinomonadaceae Pedinomonadaceae is a family of green algae.See the NCBIbr>webpage on Pedinomonadaceae Data extracted from the They are small (less than 3 μm) single-celled algae. Each cell has a single flagellum A flagellum (; ) is a hairlike app ...

. It contains the more well-known green alga and is characterized by the presence of

phycoplast image:Phycoplast.png, Schematic representation of types of cytokinesis in the green algae: 1) Phycoplast formation with cleavage furrow (e.g. ''Chlamydomonas''); 2) Cleavage furrow and persistent telophase spindle (e.g. ''Klebsormidium''); 3) Phycop ...

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

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q21381627 Chlorophyta Plant unranked clades