The Trebouxiophyceae, also known as trebouxiophytes, are a class of green algae, in the division Chlorophyta.[2] Members of this class are single-celled, colonial, or multicellular and are found in freshwater or terrestrial habitats worldwide. Many taxa in the Trebouxiophyceae form symbiotic relationships with other organisms; in particular, the majority of phycobionts within lichens are trebouxiophytes.[4] A number of taxa have also lost the ability to photosynthesize, and have evolved to become parasitic; examples include Prototheca and Helicosporidium.[3]
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^ abVančurová, Lucie; Peksa, Ondřej; Němcová, Yvonne; Škaloud, Pavel (2015). "Vulcanochloris (Trebouxiales, Trebouxiophyceae), a new genus of lichen photobiont from la Palma, Canary Islands, Spain". Phytotaxa. 219 (2): 118. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.219.2.2.
^Liu, Ben-Wen; Li, Shu-Yin; Yan, Qiu-Feng; Zhu, Huan; Liu, Guo-Xiang (2023). "Seven newly sequenced chloroplast genomes from the order Watanabeales (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta): Phylogenetic and comparative analysis". Gene. 863. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2023.147287.