Cryptandra
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Cryptandra amara 2.jpg
|image_caption = Cryptandra amara
|taxon = Cryptandra
|authority = Sm.{{cite web|title=Cryptandra|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/87010/api/apni-format|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=11 August 2022}}
|synonyms =
- 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.
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision_ref =
|subdivision = See text
}}
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File:Cryptandra spinescens 02.jpg 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.{{cite web |last1=Harden |first1=Gwen J. |title=Cryptandra |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&showsyn=&dist=&constat=&lvl=gn&name=Cryptandra |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=11 August 2022}}{{cite web |title=Cryptandra |url=http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Cryptandra |publisher=State Herbarium of South Australia |access-date=11 August 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Neville G. |last2=Udovicic |first2=Frank |last3=Stajsic |first3=Val |title=Cryptandra |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/d1b7c74d-3383-4f59-b16b-18c69789c892 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=11 August 2022}}{{FloraBase|name=Cryptandra|id=22463}}
Taxonomy
The genus Cryptandra was first formally described in 1798 by James Edward Smith in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.{{cite web|title=Cryptandra|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/506838 |publisher=APNI|accessdate=24 November 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=James E. |title=The Characters of Twenty New Genera of Plants. |journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London |date=1798 |volume=4 |page=217 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12896806#page/275/mode/1up |access-date=24 November 2022}} The genus name means "hidden man", referring to the stamens.{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=72 |edition=3rd}}
List of species
The following is a list of species of Cryptandra accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at August 2022:{{cite web |title=Cryptandra |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/search/taxonomy?product=APC&tree.id=51209179&name=Cryptandra&inc._scientific=&inc.scientific=on&inc._cultivar=&max=100&display=apc&search=true |publisher=Australian Plant Census |accessdate=11 August 2022}}
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- 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 Fenzlvar. 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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References
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External links
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