Biliphyta is a grouping of plants.
It includes Glaucophyta and Rhodophyta.1][2]
Members of this group should not be confused with Picobiliphytes, which are also known as "biliphytes".[3]
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18341584">18341584. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2408648. editThe Subkingdom Biliphyta is a member of the Kingdom Plantae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Biliphyta:
The Subkingdom Biliphyta is further organized into finer groupings including:
The glaucophytes, also known as glaucocystophytes or glaucocystids, are a small group of freshwater microscopic algae. Together with the red algae (Rhodophyta) and green algae plus land plants (Viridiplantae or Chloroplastida), they form the Archaeplastida. However, the relationships between the red algae, green algae and glaucophytes are unclear, in large part due to limited study of the glaucophytes. [more]
The red algae, or Rhodophyta ( or /?ro?d?'fa?t?/; from Greek: ??d?? (rhodon) = rose + f?t?? (phyton) = plant, thus red plant), are one of the oldest groups of eukaryotic algae, and also one of the largest, with about 5,000?6,000 species of mostly multicellular, marine algae, including many notable seaweeds. Other references indicate as many as 10,000 species; more detailed counts indicate ~4,000 in ~600 genera (3,738 marine spp in 546 genera and 10 orders (plus the unclassifiable); 164 freshwater spp in 30 genera in 8 orders). [more]
At least 14,636 species and subspecies belong to the Phylum Rhodophyta.
More info about the Phylum Rhodophyta may be found here.
