Prasinodermophyta

The Prasinodermophyta are a proposed basaldivision of marinealgae from the green algaecladeViridiplantae, sister to the much larger clades Chlorophyta and Streptophyta, the latter of which gave rise to all land plants (embryophytes). It consists of two classesPrasinodermophyceae and Palmophyllophyceae, and is informally called prasinodermophytes. They were previously considered to be a basal Chlorophyta clade, or part of the "prasinophytes".