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Coleochaetales

 
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Coleochaete
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Charophyta
Class: Coleochaetophyceae
Order: Coleochaetales
Genera

Chaetosphaeridium[1]
Coleochaete

The Coleochaetales are a family of parenchymous charophyte algae,[2] so they represents one of the most primitive multicellular relatives of land plants[3]. They questionably include the fossil genus Parka.

References

  1. ^ Cook, M. E. (2004). "Cytokinesis in Coleochaete orbicularis (Charophyceae): an ancestral mechanism inherited by plants". American Journal of Botany 91: 313. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.3.313. 
  2. ^ "Life History and Ecology of the Coleochaetales". http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/greenalgae/charophyta/coleochaetaleslh.html. 
  3. ^ Becker, B.; Marin, B. (2009), "Streptophyte algae and the origin of embryophytes", Annals of Botany 103: 999--1004, doi:10.1093/aob/mcp044, http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/7/999 

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