Topic summary
Prochlorophytes
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Chroococcales.
Morphology
Prochlorophytes are very small microbes generally between 0.2 and 2 μm (photosynthetic picoplankton). They morphologically resemble Cyanobacteria (formerly known as Blue Green Algae). Members of Prochlorophyta have been found as coccoid (spherical) (Coccus) shaped, as in Prochlorococcus, and as filaments, as in Prochlorothrix.