Cryptantha

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Cryptantha
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Cryptantha muricata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Subfamily: Boraginoideae
Genus: Cryptantha
Lehm. ex G.Don
Type species
Cryptantha glomerata
Species

about 200, see text.

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 , [1] and members of the subtribe of Amsinckiinae). [2] They are distributed throughout western North America and western South America, but they are absent from the regions in between. [1]

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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. [1] 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. [1]

Species

The genus has been reorganized several times. As of March 2024, Plants of the World Online accepts about 110 species: [3]

Cryptantha fendleri Cryptantha fendleri (4048568427).jpg
Cryptantha fendleri
Cryptantha pterocarya Cryptantha pterocarya 1.jpg
Cryptantha pterocarya
Cryptantha scoparia Cryptantha scoparia (7162017689).jpg
Cryptantha scoparia
Cryptantha clevelandii Cryptanthaclevelandii.jpg
Cryptantha clevelandii
Cryptantha utahensis Cryptantha utahensis close.jpg
Cryptantha utahensis

Formerly placed here

Many Cryptantha species have been transferred to other genera: [5]

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<i>Oreocarya suffruticosa</i> Species of plant

Oreocarya suffruticosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, native to the west and central United States and to northern Mexico. It was first described by John Torrey in 1827 as Myosotis suffruticosa and transferred to Oreocarya by Edward Lee Greene in 1887. Varieties of Oreocarya suffruticosa have previously been placed within several species of Cryptantha, including Cryptantha cinerea, Cryptantha jamesii and Cryptantha pustulosa.

<i>Oreocarya cana</i> Plant species in the borage family

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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.
  2. "Amsinckiinae". www.sci.sdsu.edu. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  3. "Cryptantha Lehm. ex G.Don | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  4. WTU Herbarium
  5. Simpson, M. G. and the Plant Systematics Lab, SDSU. Cryptantha s.l. Taxonomy & Images. Based upon Hasenstab-Lehman, K. E. and M. G. Simpson. (2012).