Chlorellales
Order of algae
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The Chlorellales are an order of green algae in the class Trebouxiophyceae.[1]
| Chlorellales | |
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| Chlorella vulgaris | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Trebouxiophyceae |
| Order: | Chlorellales H.C.Bold & M.J.Wynne, 1985 |
| Families | |
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The Chlorellales include mostly freshwater or terrestrial (rarely marine), coccoid algae.[2] Molecular phylogenetic studies mostly tend to find Chlorellales to consist of two sister clades, corresponding to Chlorellaceae and Oocystaceae; however, in some studies the two are not sister to each other, making Chlorellales not monophyletic.[3]
Genera of uncertain placement include:[4]
- Ankistrodesmopsis
- Edaphochloris
- Picochlorum
- Uvulifera
