Cryptandra
Cryptandra amara
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rhamnaceae
Tribe: Pomaderreae
Genus: Cryptandra
Sm.[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Cryptandra Sm. sect. Cryptandra
  • Cryptandra sect. Eucryptandra T.Post & Kuntze nom. inval.
  • Cryptandra sect. Wichurea Benth.
  • Cryptandra subg. Corisandra Reissek
  • Cryptandra Sm. subg. Cryptandra
  • Cryptandra subg. Eucryptandra Reissek nom. inval.
  • Wichuraea Nees ex Reissek nom. illeg.

Cryptandra is a genus of flowering plants family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Australia. Most plants in the genus Cryptandra are spiny, heath-like shrubs with small, clustered leaves and flowers crowded at the ends of branches, the flowers are usually small, surrounded by brown bracts, and with tube-shaped hypanthium, the petals hooded over the anthers.[2][3][4][5]

Taxonomy

The genus Cryptandra was first formally described in 1798 by James Edward Smith in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.[6][7] The genus name means "hidden man", referring to the stamens.[8]

List of species

The following is a list of species of Cryptandra accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at August 2022:[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cryptandra". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  2. Harden, Gwen J. "Cryptandra". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  3. "Cryptandra". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  4. Walsh, Neville G.; Udovicic, Frank; Stajsic, Val. "Cryptandra". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  5. "Cryptandra". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  6. "Cryptandra". APNI. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  7. Smith, James E. (1798). "The Characters of Twenty New Genera of Plants". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 4: 217. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  8. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 72. ISBN 9780958034180.
  9. "Cryptandra". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
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