| Chlorophyceae | |
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| Light micrograph of Pediastrum sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Subphylum: | Chlorophytina |
| Class: | Chlorophyceae Wille in Warming, 1884[1] |
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The Chlorophyceae are one of the classes of green algae, distinguished mainly on the basis of ultrastructural morphology.[2] They are usually green due to the dominance of pigments chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b. The chloroplast may be discoid, plate-like, reticulate, cup-shaped, spiral- or ribbon-shaped in different species. Most of the members have one or more storage bodies called pyrenoids located in the chloroplast. Pyrenoids contain protein besides starch. Some green algae may store food in the form of oil droplets. They usually have a cell wall made up of an inner layer of cellulose and outer layer of pectose.
- ^ Warming, E., 1884. Haandbog i den systematiske botanik. Anden gjennemsete udgave. 2nd ed. Kjøbenhavn, 434 pp. German translation (1890) of the 2nd Danish edition available at archive.org: [1]. English translation (1895) of the 3rd Danish edition (1892) available at archive.org: [2].
- ^ Štenclová, Lenka, Karolina Fučíková, Jan Kaštovský, and Marie Pažoutová (December 2017). "Molecular and morphological delimitation and generic classification of the family Oocystaceae (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta)". Journal of Phycology. 53 (6): 1263–1282. Bibcode:2017JPcgy..53.1263S. doi:10.1111/jpy.12581. PMID 28833138. S2CID 21278460 – via PubMed.
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