''Chaetosphaeridium'' is a genus of
green algae
The green algae (: green alga) are a group of chlorophyll-containing autotrophic eukaryotes consisting of the phylum Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister group that contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/ Streptophyta. The land plants ...
. Several classifications have been proposed. Its traditional classification is in the order
Coleochaetales
Coleochaetaceae is a family of algae. It is the only family in the Coleochaetales, an order of parenchymous charophyte algae, within the class Coleochaetophyceae. It includes some of the closest multicellular relatives of land plants.
It cont ...
, related to the genus ''
Coleochaete''.
AlgaeBase
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History
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places it in the order
Chaetosphaeridiales.
Species
Species include:
* ''
C. globosum''
* ''
C. huberi''
* ''
C. minus''
* ''
C. ovalis''
* ''
C. pringsheimii''
GBIF
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only accepts ''Chaetosphaeridium globosum'', ''Chaetosphaeridium ovalis'' and ''Chaetosphaeridium pringsheimii''.
References
Charophyta
Charophyta genera
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