綠色植物

綠色質體生物（學名：Chloroplastida），舊作綠色植物（Viridiplantae^[1]），是由綠藻（以水生藻類為主）與陸地植物（有胚植物）組成的真核自營生物演化支^[2][3][4] 。傳統上綠藻不包含有胚植物，因此為一並系群，但後來因為許多研究顯示有胚植物是由綠藻的一支演化而來，部分研究者開始將兩者視為一體^{[5][6][7][8][9]}。這些植物的細胞壁中存在纖維素，原生葉綠體由藍菌的內共生菌演化而來，含有葉綠素a以及葉綠素b，不含藻膽素。綠色植物共有超過350000種^[10]。

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