Chlorellales

{{Short description|Order of algae}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Chlorella vulgaris NIES2170.jpg | image_caption = ''Chlorella vulgaris'' | taxon = Chlorellales | authority = H.C.Bold & M.J.Wynne, 1985 | subdivision_ranks = Families | subdivision = * Chlorellaceae * Eremosphaeraceae * Leptosiraceae * Oocystaceae }}

The '''Chlorellales''' are an order of green algae in the class Trebouxiophyceae.<ref>See the NCBI [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=35460 webpage on Chlorellales]. Data extracted from the {{cite web | url=https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/ | title=NCBI taxonomy resources | publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information | access-date=2007-03-19}}</ref>

The Chlorellales include mostly freshwater or terrestrial (rarely marine), coccoid algae.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/07352689.2011.615705 |title=Phylogeny and Molecular Evolution of the Green Algae |date=2012 |last1=Leliaert |first1=Frederik |last2=Smith |first2=David R. |last3=Moreau |first3=Hervé |last4=Herron |first4=Matthew D. |last5=Verbruggen |first5=Heroen |last6=Delwiche |first6=Charles F. |last7=De Clerck |first7=Olivier |journal=Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=1–46 |bibcode=2012CRvPS..31....1L |url=https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/248853.pdf }}</ref> Molecular phylogenetic studies mostly tend to find Chlorellales to consist of two sister clades, corresponding to Chlorellaceae and Oocystaceae; however, in some studies the two are not sister to each other, making Chlorellales not monophyletic.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.3389/fevo.2014.00063|doi-access=free |title=New phylogenetic hypotheses for the core Chlorophyta based on chloroplast sequence data |date=2014 |last1=Fučíková |first1=Karolina |last2=Leliaert |first2=Frederik |last3=Cooper |first3=Endymion D. |last4=Škaloud |first4=Pavel |last5=d'Hondt |first5=Sofie |last6=De Clerck |first6=Olivier |last7=Gurgel |first7=Carlos F. D. |last8=Lewis |first8=Louise A. |last9=Lewis |first9=Paul O. |last10=Lopez-Bautista |first10=Juan M. |last11=Delwiche |first11=Charles F. |last12=Verbruggen |first12=Heroen |journal=Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |volume=2 |page=63 |bibcode=2014FrEEv...2...63F |hdl=11343/118338 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

Genera of uncertain placement include:<ref>{{AlgaeBase taxon|id=4515|name=Chlorellales|access-date=2025-01-25}}</ref> *''Ankistrodesmopsis'' *''Edaphochloris'' *''Picochlorum'' *''Uvulifera''

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Category:Chlorellales Category:Chlorophyta orders