Cryptandra

''Cryptandra'' is a genus of flowering plants 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'' Hook.f. (Tas.)
* ''Cryptandra amara'' Sm. (Qld., N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic., Tas.)
* ''Cryptandra apetala'' Ewart & Jean White (W.A.)
**''Cryptandra apetala'' var. ''anomala'' Rye
**''Cryptandra apetala'' Ewart & Jean White var. ''apetala'' Rye
* ''Cryptandra arbutiflora'' Fenzl (W.A.)
**''Cryptandra arbutiflora'' Fenzlvar. ''arbutiflora'' Rye
**''Cryptandra arbutiflora'' var. ''borealis'' Rye
**''Cryptandra arbutiflora'' var. ''pygmaea'' Rye
**''Cryptandra arbutiflora'' var. ''tubulosa'' (Fenzl) Benth.
* '' Cryptandra aridicola'' Rye (W.A.)
* ''Cryptandra armata'' C.T.White & W.D.Francis (Qld., N.S.W.)
* '' Cryptandra beverleyensis'' Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra campanulata'' Schltdl. (S.A.)
* '' Cryptandra ciliata'' A.R.Bean (Qld.)
* '' Cryptandra congesta'' Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra connata'' C.A.Gardner (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra craigiae'' Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra debilis'' A.R.Bean (Qld.)
* ''Cryptandra dielsii'' C.A.Gardner ex Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra distigma'' Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra ericoides'' Sm. (N.S.W., Vic.)
* '' Cryptandra exilis'' D.I.Morris (Tas.)
* '' Cryptandra exserta'' Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra filiformis'' A.R.Bean (Qld.)
* '' Cryptandra gemmata'' A.R.Bean (N.T.)
* '' Cryptandra glabriflora'' Benth. (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra graniticola'' Rye (W.A.)
* ''Cryptandra hispidula'' Reissek & F.Muell. (S.A.)
* '' Cryptandra imbricata'' Rye (W.A.)
* ''Cryptandra inconspicua'' Rye (W.A.)
* ''Cryptandra intermedia'' (Rye) Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra intonsa'' Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra intratropica'' W.Fitzg. (W.A.)
* ''Cryptandra lanosiflora'' F.Muell. (Qld., N.S.W.)
* '' Cryptandra leucopogon'' Meisn. ex Reissek (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra longistaminea'' F.Muell. (Qld., N.S.W.)
* '' Cryptandra magniflora'' F.Muell. (Vic.)
* '' Cryptandra micrantha'' Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra minutifolia'' Rye (W.A.)
**''Cryptandra minutifolia'' subsp. ''brevistyla'' Rye
**''Cryptandra minutifolia'' Rye subsp. ''minutifolia''
* '' Cryptandra monticola'' Rye & Trudgen (W.A.)
* ''Cryptandra multispina'' Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra mutila'' Nees ex Reissek (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra myriantha'' Diels (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra nola'' Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra nutans'' Steud. (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra orbicularis'' A.R.Bean (Qld.)
* '' Cryptandra pendula'' Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra pogonoloba'' A.R.Bean (Qld.)
**''Cryptandra pogonoloba'' A.R.Bean subsp. ''pogonoloba''
**''Cryptandra pogonoloba'' subsp. ''septentrionalis'' Kellerman
* '' Cryptandra polyclada'' Diels (W.A.)
**''Cryptandra polyclada'' subsp. ''aequabilis'' Rye
**''Cryptandra polyclada'' Diels subsp. ''polyclada''
* '' Cryptandra propinqua'' A.Cunn. ex Fenzl (S.A., Qld., N.S.W.)
** ''Cryptandra propinqua'' subsp. ''maranoa'' Kellermann & Udovicic
** ''Cryptandra propinqua'' A.Cunn. ex Fenzl subsp. ''propinqua''
* '' Cryptandra pungens'' Steud. (W.A.)
* ''Cryptandra recurva'' Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra scoparia'' Reissek (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra speciosa'' A.Cunn. ex Kellermann & Udovicic (N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic.)
** ''Cryptandra speciosa'' A.Cunn. ex Kellermann & Udovicic subsp. ''speciosa''
** ''Cryptandra speciosa'' subsp. ''strigosa'' Kellermann & Udovicic
* '' Cryptandra spinescens'' Sieber ex DC. (N.S.W.)
* '' Cryptandra spyridioides'' F.Muell. (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra stellulata'' Rye (W.A.)
* '' Cryptandra tomentosa'' Lindl. (S.A., Vic.)
* '' Cryptandra triplex'' K.R.Thiele ex Kellerman (N.T.)
* '' Cryptandra wilsonii'' Rye (W.A.)

References

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Rhamnaceae genera
Taxa named by James Edward Smith