Survey of the botanical Phyla
Chlorophyta ![[audio pronunciation]](../sounds/speaker.gif)
General features of the green plants
Common name
Green algae
Synonyms
None
Habitat
Freshwater, marine, terrestial
Growth habit
Unicellular, colonial, filamentous, flat sheet, plectenchyma, parenchyma
Undulipodia (“flagella”)
two or more whiplash, or none
Clonal reproduction
Mitosis of unicells, zoospores, rarely aplanospores
Sexual reproduction
Haploid dominant, diploid dominant, alternation of generations, unicellular; isogamous, anisogamous, oogamous
Representative genera
Chara, Chlamydomonas, Cladophora, Closterium, Gonium, Hydrodictyon, Monostroma, Oedogonium, Pediastrum, Scenedesmus, Spirogyra, Ulva, Volvox
Recognized by
Green plants that are not “land plants” (embryophytes)