Pancryptista is a

clade In biology, a clade (), also known as a Monophyly, monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that is composed of a common ancestor and all of its descendants. Clades are the fundamental unit of cladistics, a modern approach t ...

that includes the

Cryptista Cryptista is a clade of alga-like eukaryotes. It is most likely related to Archaeplastida which includes plants and many algae, within the larger group Diaphoretickes. Other characteristic features of cryptophyte mtDNAs include large syntenic ...

as well as the ''

Microheliella ''Microheliella'' () is a monotypic genus of protists containing the sole species ''M. maris'', first described in 2012. It has a variety of unusual morphological characteristics which make its broader classification difficult. These include a ce ...

''.

Phylogenomic Phylogenomics is the intersection of the fields of evolution and genomics. The term has been used in multiple ways to refer to analysis that involves genome data and evolutionary reconstructions. It is a group of techniques within the larger fields ...

analyses from 2022 suggest the ''Microheliella'' is sister to the

, forming the clade called Pancryptista, which would be sister to the

Archaeplastida The Archaeplastida (or kingdom Plantae '' sensu lato'' "in a broad sense"; pronounced ) are a major group of eukaryotes, comprising the photoautotrophic red algae (Rhodophyta), green algae, land plants, and the minor group glaucophytes. It als ...

, forming the

CAM clade The CAM clade is a clade containing the Archaeplastida (Plant, Plantae ''sensu lato'') and the clade Pancryptista (which, in turn, contains Cryptista and Microheliella, ''Microheliella maris''). This clade is supported by phylogenomic analyses ...

References

Taxa described in 2022 Diaphoretickes taxa {{cryptista-stub