Chlorophytina

Chlorophytina is a subphylum within Chlorophyta and includes five classes.^[2][3] It contains the more well-known green algae and is characterized by the presence of phycoplasts.

Chlorophytina
Composite image to illustrate the diversity of Chlorophytina. Top left: Ulva. Top right: Caulerpa. Bottom left: Bornetella. Bottom right: Dictyosphaeria.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Chlorophyta
Subphylum:	Chlorophytina
Classes[1]
Chlorodendrophyceae Massjuk 2006 Chlorophyceae Wille Trebouxiophyceae Friedl 1995 Ulvophyceae K.R.Mattox & K.D.Stewart 1984 Pedinophyceae

Taxonomy

Below is a consensus reconstruction of green algal relationships, mainly based on molecular data. Molecular phylogenies do not always agree on the position of species within Pedinophyceae.^[4][5][6]

Viridiplantae	Chlorophyta Chlorophytina Ulvophyceae Mattox & Stewart 1984 Chlorophyceae Christensen 1994 Trebouxiophyceae Friedl 1995 Chlorodendrophyceae Massjuk 2006 Pedinophyceae Moestrup 1991 Chloropicophyceae Picocystis Pycnococcaceae Nephroselmidophyceae Mamiellophyceae Marin & Melkonian 2010 Pyramimonadales Streptophyta = Charophyta (incl. Embryophyta) Prasinodermophyta
(green algae and land plants)