biliphyte

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biliphyte (plural biliphytes)

  1. Any alga of the phylum Biliphyta.
    • 2010, Aharon Oren, Molecular Phylogeny of Microorganisms, page 190:
      An additional photosynthetic lineage that was not formally included in Hacrobia, but has been shown to be related to the cryptophyte/haptophyte clade (Not et al., 2007), is the biliphytes.

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