Explanation:
The members of chlorophyceae are commonly called green algae ;
Some characteristics of chlorophyceae are :
The plant body might be filamentous, colonial, or unicellular. Due to the prevalence of the pigments chlorophyll a and b, they or typically grass-green.
- The pigments are localised in definite chloroplasts. The chloroplasts may be discoid plate like, reticulate, cup-shaped, spiral or ribon-shaped in different species.
- It has one or more storage bodies called pyrenoids located in the chloroplasts.
- Some commonly found green algae are:
Chlamydomonas, volvox, ulothrix, spirogyra and chara.
