Genus of flowering plants
Cryptandra arbutiflora
Cryptandra spinescens in the Australian National Botanic Gardens
Cryptandra is a genus of flowering plants in the 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]
Cryptandra alpina Hook.f. (Tas.)
Cryptandra amara Sm. (Qld., N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic., Tas.)
Cryptandra apetala Ewart & Jean White (W.A.)
Cryptandra apetala var. anomala Rye
Cryptandra apetala Ewart & Jean White var. apetala Rye
Cryptandra arbutiflora Fenzl (W.A.)
Cryptandra arbutiflora Fenzl var. arbutiflora Rye
Cryptandra arbutiflora var. borealis Rye
Cryptandra arbutiflora var. pygmaea Rye
Cryptandra arbutiflora var. tubulosa (Fenzl) Benth.
Cryptandra aridicola Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra armata C.T.White & W.D.Francis (Qld., N.S.W.)
Cryptandra beverleyensis Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra campanulata Schltdl. (S.A.)
Cryptandra ciliata A.R.Bean (Qld.)
Cryptandra congesta Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra connata C.A.Gardner (W.A.)
Cryptandra craigiae Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra debilis A.R.Bean (Qld.)
Cryptandra dielsii C.A.Gardner ex Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra distigma Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra ericoides Sm. (N.S.W., Vic.)
Cryptandra exilis D.I.Morris (Tas.)
Cryptandra exserta Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra filiformis A.R.Bean (Qld.)
Cryptandra gemmata A.R.Bean (N.T.)
Cryptandra glabriflora Benth. (W.A.)
Cryptandra graniticola Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra hispidula Reissek & F.Muell. (S.A.)
Cryptandra imbricata Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra inconspicua Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra intermedia (Rye) Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra intonsa Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra intratropica W.Fitzg. (W.A.)
Cryptandra lanosiflora F.Muell. (Qld., N.S.W.)
Cryptandra leucopogon Meisn. ex Reissek (W.A.)
Cryptandra longistaminea F.Muell. (Qld., N.S.W.)
Cryptandra magniflora F.Muell. (Vic.)
Cryptandra micrantha Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra minutifolia Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra minutifolia subsp. brevistyla Rye
Cryptandra minutifolia Rye subsp. minutifolia
Cryptandra monticola Rye & Trudgen (W.A.)
Cryptandra multispina Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra mutila Nees ex Reissek (W.A.)
Cryptandra myriantha Diels (W.A.)
Cryptandra nola Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra nutans Steud. (W.A.)
Cryptandra orbicularis A.R.Bean (Qld.)
Cryptandra pendula Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra pogonoloba A.R.Bean (Qld.)
Cryptandra pogonoloba A.R.Bean subsp. pogonoloba
Cryptandra pogonoloba subsp. septentrionalis Kellerman
Cryptandra polyclada Diels (W.A.)
Cryptandra polyclada subsp. aequabilis Rye
Cryptandra polyclada Diels subsp. polyclada
Cryptandra propinqua A.Cunn. ex Fenzl (S.A., Qld., N.S.W.)
Cryptandra propinqua subsp. maranoa Kellermann & Udovicic
Cryptandra propinqua A.Cunn. ex Fenzl subsp. propinqua
Cryptandra pungens Steud. (W.A.)
Cryptandra recurva Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra scoparia Reissek (W.A.)
Cryptandra speciosa A.Cunn. ex Kellermann & Udovicic (N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic.)
Cryptandra speciosa A.Cunn. ex Kellermann & Udovicic subsp. speciosa
Cryptandra speciosa subsp. strigosa Kellermann & Udovicic
Cryptandra spinescens Sieber ex DC. (N.S.W.)
Cryptandra spyridioides F.Muell. (W.A.)
Cryptandra stellulata Rye (W.A.)
Cryptandra tomentosa Lindl. (S.A., Vic.)
Cryptandra triplex K.R.Thiele ex Kellerman (N.T.)
Cryptandra wilsonii Rye (W.A.)
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