Natura - nature
   actualia - actual entities
     Mundus Plinius - physical world
       naturalia - natural bodies
         [crown] Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
           Clade neomura Cavalier-Smith, 1987
             Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925 - eukaryotes
               Clade discaria Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                 Clade natates Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                   Clade photaria Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                     Clade eucorta Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                       Superkingdom Corticata Lankester, 1878 - corticates
                         Kingdom Plantae Haeckel (1866) - plants
                           Subkingdom Viridiplantae Caval.-Sm. (1981) - green plants
                             Phylum Chlorophyta Pascher (1914) [coordinate rank] - green algae
                               "core chlorophytes"
                                 Class Chlorophyceae Wille (1884) - chlorophytes
                                   Order Sphaeropleales Luerssen (1877)
                                     Genus Desmodesmus (R.H. Chodat, 1926) S.S. An, T. Friedl & E.Hegewald (1999)
                                     Family Selanastraceae
                                     1 Family Sphaeropleaceaeᵀ Kützing
                                     2 Family Characiaceae (Nägeli) Wittrock
                                     3 Family Ankistrodesmaceae Korshikov
                                     4 Family Coccomyxaceae G.M. Sm.
                                     5.1 Genus Bracteacoccus E. Tereg (1923)
                                     5.2 Family Microsporaceae Bohlin
                                     6 Family Scenedesmaceae Oltmanns
                                     7 Family Hydrodictyaceae Dumort.
                                     8 Family Neochloridaceae Ettl & Komárek