Cryptotaenia
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|image_caption = Cryptotaenia japonica
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|taxon = Cryptotaenia
|authority = DC.
|type_species = Cryptotaenia canadensis
|type_species_authority = (L.) DC.
|synonyms =
- Alacospermum {{small|Neck.}}
- Deringa {{small|Adans.}}
- Mesodiscus {{small|Raf.}}
- Myrrha {{small|Mitch.}}
|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Cryptotaenia DC. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331526-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=17 February 2025}}
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Cryptotaenia, or honewort,{{Cite book|url=http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf|title=English Names for Korean Native Plants|publisher=Korea National Arboretum|year=2015|isbn=978-89-97450-98-5|location=Pocheon|pages=426|access-date=7 December 2016|via=Korea Forest Service|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525105020/http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf|archive-date=25 May 2017}} is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants, native to North America, Africa, and eastern Asia, growing wild in moist, shady places.
Species
Six species are accepted by Plants of the World Online as of February 2025. Other studies suggested that the African and Canary Island species should be moved to other genera and that the Italian endemic Lereschia thomasii should be included in Cryptotaenia.{{ cite journal |author1=Hardway, T. M. |author2=Spalik, K. |author3=Watson, M. F. |author4=Katz-Downie, D. S. |author5=Downie, S. R. | title = Circumscription of Apiaceae tribe Oenantheae | journal = South African Journal of Botany | year = 2004 | volume = 70 | issue = 3 | pages = 393–406 |doi=10.1016/S0254-6299(15)30222-2 | url = http://www.life.uiuc.edu/downie/Hardway.pdf | doi-access = free }}{{ cite journal |author1=Spalik, K. |author2=Downie, S. R. | title = Intercontinental disjunctions in Cryptotaenia (Apiaceae, Oenantheae): an appraisal using molecular data | journal = Journal of Biogeography | year = 2007 | volume = 34 | issue = 12 | pages = 2039–2054 | url = http://www.life.illinois.edu/downie/PDF_Symbol.gif | format = pdf | doi=10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01752.x|bibcode=2007JBiog..34.2039S |s2cid=4838103 }} In 2016 the Canary Islands endemic Cryptotaenia elegans was moved to genus Daucus as Daucus elegans.{{cite web |title=Daucus elegans (Webb ex Bolle) Spalik, Banasiak & Reduron |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77158608-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=17 February 2025}}
- Cryptotaenia africana (Hook.f.) Drude - GabonORSTOM. 1988. List Vasc. Pl. Gabon Herbier National du Gabon, Yaounde
- Cryptotaenia calycina C.C.Towns. - TanzaniaTownsend, Clifford Charles. Kew Bulletin 38: 59. 1983
- Cryptotaenia canadensis (L.) DC. - eastern + central North America[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Cryptotaenia%20canadensis.png Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map]
- Cryptotaenia flahaultii (Woronow) Koso-Pol. - Republic of Georgia[https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/200108/2633871 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Cryptotaenia flahaultii] vulnerable rating
- Cryptotaenia japonica Hassk. - Japan, Korea, China[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200015509 Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 80, 鸭儿芹 ya er qin, Cryptotaenia japonica Hasskarl, Retzia. 1: 113. 1855. ]
- Cryptotaenia polygama C.C.Towns. - TanzaniaTownsend, Clifford Charles. Kew Bulletin 38: 57. 1983.
=Formerly placed here=
- Daucus elegans {{small|(Webb ex Bolle) Spalik, Banasiak & Reduron}} (as Cryptotaenia elegans Webb ex Bolle)
References
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External links
- [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200015509 Efloras.org: Taxonomy description of Cryptotaenia japonica]
- [http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Cryptotaenia+japonica Plants for a Future database.org: Cryptotaenia japonica]
{{Edible Apiaceae}}
{{Herbs & spices}}
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Category:Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
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