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.
Taxonomy
The genus Cryptandra was first formally described in 1798 by James Edward Smith in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. The genus name means "hidden man", referring to the stamens.
List of species
The following is a list of species of Cryptandra accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at August 2022:
- Cryptandra alpina <small>Hook.f.</small> (Tas.)
- Cryptandra amara <small>Sm.</small> (Qld., N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic., Tas.)
- Cryptandra apetala <small>Ewart & Jean White</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra apetala var. anomala <small>Rye</small>
- Cryptandra apetala <small>Ewart & Jean White</small> var. apetala <small>Rye</small>
- Cryptandra arbutiflora <small>Fenzl</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra arbutiflora <small>Fenzl</small>var. arbutiflora <small>Rye</small>
- Cryptandra arbutiflora var. borealis <small>Rye</small>
- Cryptandra arbutiflora var. pygmaea <small>Rye</small>
- Cryptandra arbutiflora var. tubulosa <small>(Fenzl) Benth.</small>
- Cryptandra aridicola <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra armata <small>C.T.White & W.D.Francis</small> (Qld., N.S.W.)
- Cryptandra beverleyensis <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra campanulata <small>Schltdl.</small> (S.A.)
- Cryptandra ciliata <small>A.R.Bean</small> (Qld.)
- Cryptandra congesta <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra connata <small>C.A.Gardner</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra craigiae <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra debilis <small>A.R.Bean</small> (Qld.)
- Cryptandra dielsii <small>C.A.Gardner ex Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra distigma <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra ericoides <small>Sm.</small> (N.S.W., Vic.)
- Cryptandra exilis <small>D.I.Morris</small> (Tas.)
- Cryptandra exserta <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra filiformis <small>A.R.Bean</small> (Qld.)
- Cryptandra gemmata <small>A.R.Bean</small> (N.T.)
- Cryptandra glabriflora <small>Benth.</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra graniticola <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra hispidula <small>Reissek & F.Muell.</small> (S.A.)
- Cryptandra imbricata <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra inconspicua <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra intermedia <small>(Rye) Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra intonsa <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra intratropica <small>W.Fitzg.</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra lanosiflora <small>F.Muell.</small> (Qld., N.S.W.)
- Cryptandra leucopogon <small>Meisn. ex Reissek</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra longistaminea <small>F.Muell.</small> (Qld., N.S.W.)
- Cryptandra magniflora <small>F.Muell.</small> (Vic.)
- Cryptandra micrantha <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra minutifolia <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra minutifolia subsp. brevistyla <small>Rye</small>
- Cryptandra minutifolia <small>Rye</small> subsp. minutifolia
- Cryptandra monticola <small>Rye & Trudgen</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra multispina <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra mutila <small>Nees ex Reissek</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra myriantha <small>Diels</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra nola <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra nutans <small>Steud.</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra orbicularis <small>A.R.Bean</small> (Qld.)
- Cryptandra pendula <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra pogonoloba <small>A.R.Bean</small> (Qld.)
- Cryptandra pogonoloba <small>A.R.Bean</small> subsp. pogonoloba
- Cryptandra pogonoloba subsp. septentrionalis <small>Kellerman</small>
- Cryptandra polyclada <small>Diels</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra polyclada subsp. aequabilis <small>Rye</small>
- Cryptandra polyclada <small>Diels</small> subsp. polyclada
- Cryptandra propinqua <small>A.Cunn. ex Fenzl</small> (S.A., Qld., N.S.W.)
- Cryptandra propinqua subsp. maranoa <small>Kellermann & Udovicic</small>
- Cryptandra propinqua <small>A.Cunn. ex Fenzl</small> subsp. propinqua
- Cryptandra pungens <small>Steud.</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra recurva <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra scoparia <small>Reissek</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra speciosa <small>A.Cunn. ex Kellermann & Udovicic</small> (N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic.)
- Cryptandra speciosa <small>A.Cunn. ex Kellermann & Udovicic</small> subsp. speciosa
- Cryptandra speciosa subsp. strigosa <small>Kellermann & Udovicic</small>
- Cryptandra spinescens <small>Sieber ex DC. </small> (N.S.W.)
- Cryptandra spyridioides <small>F.Muell.</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra stellulata <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
- Cryptandra tomentosa <small>Lindl.</small> (S.A., Vic.)
- Cryptandra triplex <small>K.R.Thiele ex Kellerman</small> (N.T.)
- Cryptandra wilsonii <small>Rye</small> (W.A.)
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