Cryptophyte may refer to:

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