Trentepohliales

Trentepohliales is an exclusively terrestrial order of Ulvophyceaen green algae.[1][2] The order is characterized by traits like net-like chloroplasts without pyrenoids, cell walls with plasmodesmata and cytokinesis by production of a phragmoplast.[3]

Trentepohliales
Trentepohlia aurea
Scientific classification
(unranked): Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Ulvophyceae
Order: Trentepohliales
Chadefaud ex R.H.Thompson & D.E.Wujek
Families

Some Trentepohliales algae, such as Trentepohlia species, show remarkable desiccation tolerance and adaptability to a wide range of light and temperature conditions, as evidenced by research on alpine and coastal environment species.[4]

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