Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Plantae

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade

Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021): 552 ("most inclusive clade").

Defined by included taxon (and all taxa more closely related to it than to the excluded taxon)

Picomonadea (Class) Seenivasan, Sausen, Medlin & Melkonian, 2013		Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021): 552.
Rhodelphea (Class) Tikhonenkov, Gawryluk, Mylnikov & Keeling (2019)		Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021): 552.
Rhodophyta (Phylum) Wettst. (1901)		Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021): 552.

Defined by excluded taxon

Glaucophyta (Phylum) Skuja (1954)		Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021): 552.
Viridiplantae (Subkingdom) Caval.-Sm. (1981)		Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021): 552.

Original position

Biliphyta (Subkingdom) Caval.-Sm. (1981)

Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021): 552.

Current position

Plantae (Kingdom) Haeckel (1866)

Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021) (alt.): fig. 11. [new taxon]

Alternative positions

Biliphyta (Subkingdom) Caval.-Sm. (1981)

Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021): 552. [new taxon]

Historical positions

Biliphyta (Subkingdom) Caval.-Sm. (1981)	Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021): 552. [new taxon]
Plantae (Kingdom) Haeckel (1866)	Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2022(2021) (alt.): fig. 11; table 2 (p. 565). [new taxon]

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	2p;9c;42o;90f;551g;417s;11v; †2f
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 27 Jan 2024	[2p;9c;42o]