Spirotaenia

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Spirotaenia
Spirotaenia condensata
Scientific classification
(unranked):
Kingdom:
Genus:
Spirotaenia

Brébisson 1848
Type species
Spirotaenia condensata
Brébisson 1848
Synonyms
  • Entospira Kuntze 1898
  • Endospira Brébisson 1850

Spirotaenia is a genus of basal unicellular

land plants. This is surprising, as Spirotaenia is much more basal. The conjugating process is substantially aberrant.[further explanation needed][3][4] Spirotaenia may actually be more than one distinct lineage which may not be closely related.[5]

Phylogeny

Archaeplastida

Rhodophyta
(red algae)

Glaucophyta
(opaque cyan algae)

Viridiplantae
Prasinodermophyta

Palmophyllophyceae (prasinophyte clade VI)

Prasinodermophyceae

Chlorophyta

Streptophytes

Mesostigmatophyta:
Mesostigmatophyceae

Chlorokybophyceae

Spirotaenia

Plantae
groups
traditionally
included in
the "algae"

References