Cryptanthus 'Blonde'
''Cryptanthus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus name is from the Greek ''cryptos'' (hidden) and ''anthos'' (flower). The genus formerly had two recognized subgenera: the type subgenus and subgenus ''Hoplocryptanthus'' Mez which has been raised to the separate genus '' Hoplocryptanthus''. All species of this genus are endemic to Brazil. The common name for any ''Cryptanthus'' is "Earth star". Species , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: *'' Cryptanthus acaulis'' (Lindl.) Beer *'' Cryptanthus alagoanus'' Leme & J.A.Siqueira *'' Cryptanthus apiculatantherus'' D.M.C.Ferreira, E.M.Almeida & Louzada *''Cryptanthus bahianus'' L.B.Sm. *''Cryptanthus beuckeri'' É.Morren *''Cryptanthus bibarrensis'' Leme *'' Cryptanthus bivittatus'' (Hook.) Regel *'' Cryptanthus boanovensis'' Leme *''Cryptanthus brevibracteatus'' D.M.C.Ferreira & Louzada *''Cryptanthus brevifolius'' Leme *''Cryptanthus bromelioides'' Ot ...
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Cryptantha
''Cryptantha'' is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. They are known commonly as cat's eyes and popcorn flowers (the latter name is also used to refer to the closely related genus ''Plagiobothrys'',Hasenstab-Lehman, K. E. and M. G. Simpson. (2012)Cat's eyes and popcorn flowers: phylogenetic systematics of the genus ''Cryptantha'' s. l. (Boraginaceae).''Systematic Botany'' 37(3), 738-57. and members of the subtribe of ''Amsinckiinae''). They are distributed throughout western North America and western South America, but they are absent from the regions in between. These are annual or perennial herbs usually coated in rough hairs and bearing rounded flower corollas that are almost always white, but are yellow in a few species. Several morphological characters are used to distinguish species from one another, but the most definitive is the form of the nutlet, which varies in shape, size, color, and pattern of attachment. Systematics The genus has been ...
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