Cryptophyte

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Cryptophyte may refer to:

  • a plant which survives the unfavorable season underground or underwater in the Raunkiær plant life-form classification
  • cryptomonad, or cryptophyte, a single-celled organism of the superclass Cryptomonada, most of which are photosynthetic
  • Cryptophyceae, a class of cryptomonads
  • fossil plants that produced the cryptospores
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