Viridiplantae

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Viridiplantae
An assortment of thallophyte Viridiplantae in a rock pool, Taiwan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
(unranked): Archaeplastida
(unranked): Viridiplantae
Cavalier-Smith
, 1981
Subgroups
Synonyms
  • Plantae, Copeland, 1938, 1956[2][3]
  • Euchlorophyta Whittaker, 1969[4]
  • Chlorophyta sensu van den Hoek & Jahns, 1978[5]
  • Chlorobionta Jeffrey 1982, emend. Bremer 1985, emend. Lewis and McCourt 2004
  • Chlorobiota Kendrick and Crane 1997
  • Chloroplastida Adl et al., 2005
  • Viridiplantae Cavalier-Smith 1981[6]
  • Phyta Barkley 1939 emed. Holt & Uidica 2007
  • Cormophyta Endlicher, 1836
  • Cormobionta Rothmaler, 1948
  • Euplanta Barkley, 1949
  • Telomobionta Takhtajan, 1964
  • Embryobionta Cronquist et al., 1966
  • Metaphyta Whittaker, 1969

Viridiplantae (literally "green plants")

Rhodelphydia.[16]

In some classification systems, the group has been treated as a

Chlorokybophyceae.[19][20] Together with Rhodophyta and glaucophytes, Viridiplantae are thought to belong to a larger clade called Archaeplastida
or Primoplantae.

Phylogeny and classification

Simplified phylogeny of the Viridiplantae, according to Leliaert et al. 2012.[21]

Cladogram

In 2019, a phylogeny based on genomes and transcriptomes from 1,153 plant species was proposed.[23] The placing of algal groups is supported by phylogenies based on genomes from the Mesostigmatophyceae and Chlorokybophyceae that have since been sequenced. Both the "chlorophyte algae" and the "streptophyte algae" are treated as paraphyletic (vertical bars beside phylogenetic tree diagram) in this analysis.[24][25] The classification of Bryophyta is supported both by Puttick et al. 2018,[26] and by phylogenies involving the hornwort genomes that have also since been sequenced.[27][28]

Archaeplastida

Rhodophyta

Glaucophyta

Viridiplantae
(green plants)
"chlorophyte algae"
"streptophyte algae"

Ancestrally, the green algae were flagellates.[21]


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