Chlorenchyma is a tissue: parenchyma cells containing chloroplasts, which carry out photosynthesis. Chlorella is a unicellular alga, so it cannot have a tissue; its cytoplasm just contains a chloroplast. Aspergillus is a fungus; its mycelium has no chloroplasts (the green colour is due to spores). The pollen tube of Pinus also lacks chloroplasts. The capsule of the moss sporophyte has photosynthetic tissue (chlorenchyma) in its wall, below the epidermis, around the air spaces. This allows the sporophyte to make part of its own food. So chlorenchyma is found in the spore capsule of a moss.
ConceptChlorenchyma as a tissue
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