[1] The name Chlorangiella was coined by Giovanni Battista de Toni in 1889.

[1] Species of Chlorangiella are attached via stalks to freshwater algae, crustaceans, rotifers, or insect larvae.

[2] They can attach to the substrate, such as the copepod Cyclops, in such large quantities as to make them appear green.

Stalks may be branched or unbranched and up to 5 times the lengths of the cells.

They contain a single cell nucleus (i.e. are uninucleate) and contractile vacuoles at their apices.