The marine Prasinodermophyta are a proposed basal Viridiplantae clade, as sister of another clade comprising the Chlorophyta and the Streptophyta.[2][1][3] It consists of the Prasinodermophyceae and the Palmophyllophyceae. They were previously considered to be a basal Chlorophyta clade, or part of the "Prasinophytes".
Prasinodermophyta | |
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Prasinoderma under light microscopy | |
Scientific classification | |
(unranked): | Viridiplantae |
Phylum: | Prasinodermophyta B. Marin & Melkonian in Li et al., 2020[1] |
Classes | |
Viridiplantae/ |
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green algae |