Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Progymnospermophyta Bold et al. † |
| class | Noeggerathiopsida Krysht. † |
| order | Discinitales Doweld † |
| family | Discinitaceae Gao Zhifeng et B.A. Thomas † |
| genus | Saaropteris M. Hirmer † |