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 | Chlorophyta Reichenbach, 1828 - green algae |
| class | Chlorophyceae Wille - green algae |
| order | Sphaeropleales Luerssen |
| family | Characiaceae (Nägeli) Wittrock |
| genus | Characium A. Braun |