Paracryphia

{{Short description|Genus of shrubs}}

{{Speciesbox

|taxon=Paracryphia alticola

|parent_authority = Baker f.{{Cite IPNI | id = 14943-1 | taxon = Paracryphia | authority = Baker f. | date = 2023 | access-date = 2023-01-02 }}

|authority = (Schltr.) Steenis{{Cite IPNI | id = 337100-1 | taxon = Paracryphia alticola | authority = (Schltr.) Steenis | date = 2023 | access-date = 2023-01-02 }}

|synonyms = Species

{{Species list

| Ascarina alticola | Schltr.

| Paracryphia alticola var. suaveolens | (Baker f.) Steenis

| Paracryphia suaveolens | Baker f.

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|synonyms_ref = {{Cite POWO | author = POWO | year = 2023 | title = Paracryphia alticola (Schltr.) Steenis | id = 337100-1 | access-date = 2023-01-02 }}

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Paracryphia is a genus of a single species, Paracryphia alticola, a small tree or shrub endemic to New Caledonia{{Cite book | last1 = Jérémie | first1 = J. | date = 1996 | chapter = Paracryphiaceae | editor-last1 = Aubréville | editor-first1 = André | editor-link1 = André Aubréville | editor-last2 = Morat | editor-first2 = Philippe | editor-link2 = Philippe Morat | title = Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et dépendances | url = https://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/medias/doc/EXPLOITATION/IFD/FLNCA_S000_1996_T020_N000/flore-de-la-nouvelle-caledonie-et-dependances-celastraceae-loranthaceae-viscaceae-alseuosmiaceae-par | publisher = Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle | location = Paris | volume = 20 | pages = 107–111 | language = fr | access-date = 2023-01-02 }} in the family Paracryphiaceae. Its closest relative is Sphenostemon.{{Cite journal | last1 = Tank | first1 = David C. | last2 = Donoghue | first2 = Michael J. | date = 1 April 2010 | title = Phylogeny and Phylogenetic Nomenclature of the Campanulidae Based on an Expanded Sample of Genes and Taxa | url = https://donoghuelab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/190_tank_systbot10.pdf | journal = Systematic Botany | volume = 35 | issue = 2 | pages = 425–441 | doi = 10.1600/036364410791638306 | s2cid = 27856073 | jstor = 40802453 | access-date = 2023-01-02 | via = Donoghue Lab at Yale University }}