The Chlorophytina are a proposed

basal Basal or basilar is a term meaning ''base'', ''bottom'', or ''minimum''. Science * Basal (anatomy), an anatomical term of location for features associated with the base of an organism or structure * Basal (medicine), a minimal level that is nec ...

Tetraphytina The Tetraphytina (Cavalier-Smith 2008) or 'core Chlorophyta' are a proposed derived Chlorophyta Chlorophyta or Prasinophyta is a taxon of green algae informally called chlorophytes. The name is used in two very different senses, so care is ne ...

clade. 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 appe ...

. 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