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Land Plant Origin Among the Charophyte Green Algae
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Land plants descended from a freshwater charophyte green alga, a lineage grouped with land plants in Archaeplastida by shared chloroplast ancestry.
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Traits linking charophytes to land plants include phragmoplast-guided cell division, plasmodesmata, and sporopollenin, corroborated by DNA sequence comparison.
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A living charophyte is not land plants' ancestor, only a relative of the lineage that gave rise to them.