Cryptandra

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|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}}

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  • 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.

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File:Cryptandra arbutiflora - Flickr - Kevin Thiele.jpg]]

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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