Cryptantha

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Not to be confused with Cryptanthus.

Cryptantha
Cryptanthamuricata.jpg
Cryptantha muricata
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Subfamily: Boraginoideae
Genus: Cryptantha
Lehm. ex G.Don
Type species

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] They are distributed throughout western North America and western South America, but they are absent from the regions in between.[1]

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]

Systematics[]

The genus has been reorganized several times. As of 2012 there are about 200 species. About 130 are limited to western North America, and about 70 species occur in western South America; three species are found on both continents.[1]

Species include:[2]

  • Cryptantha affinis – slender catseye, common cryptantha, quill cryptantha
  • – New Mexico catseye
  • Cryptantha ambigua – basin cryptantha, obscure cryptantha, Wilke's cryptantha[3]
  • Cryptantha angustifolia – bristlelobe cryptantha, narrowleaf pick-me-not, Panamint catseye, narrow-leaved popcorn flower
  • — bearded catseye
Cryptantha pterocarya
  • – gravel cryptantha, gravel-bar catseye
  • – bush-loving catseye
  • – hedgehog cryptantha, prickly cryptantha
  • – deepscar cryptantha
Cryptantha scoparia
  • – Fendler's cryptantha, sand-dune catseye
  • – weakstem cryptantha
  • Cryptantha flava
Cryptantha clevelandii
  • – Gander's cryptantha
  • – Truckee cryptantha
  • – narrowstem catseye, narrowstem pick-me-not
  • – Napa cryptantha
  • – Hoover's cryptantha
  • Cryptantha humilis – Payson roundspike cryptantha
  • Cryptantha incana – Tulare cryptantha
  • Cryptantha intermedia – Clearwater catseye, common cryptantha
Cryptantha utahensis
  • – Kelsey's cryptantha
  • Cryptantha leiocarpa – coastal cryptantha
  • – Mariposa cryptantha
  • – Guadalupe catseye
    • Cryptantha maritima var. cedrosensis
    • Cryptantha maritima var. maritima
    • Cryptantha maritima var. pilosa
  • – Mexican catseye
  • Cryptantha microstachys – Tejon cryptantha
  • – Milo Baker's cryptantha
  • Cryptantha minima – little catseye, small cryptantha
  • – Mojave cryptantha
  • Cryptantha muricata – pointed catseye, prickly cryptantha
    • Cryptantha muricata var. denticulata
    • Cryptantha muricata var. jonesii – Jones' catseye
    • Cryptantha muricata var. muricata
  •  : Colusa cryptantha
  • Cryptantha nevadensis : Nevada catseye
    • Cryptantha nevadensis var. nevadensis
    • Cryptantha nevadensis var. rigida
  • – sharpnut cryptantha, sharpseed cryptantha
  • Cryptantha pterocarya – winged pick-me-not, wingnut catseye
    • Cryptantha pterocarya var. cycloptera
    • Cryptantha pterocarya var. pterocarya
    • Cryptantha pterocarya var. stenoloba
  • – Rattan's cryptantha
  • – curvenut catseye
  • – beaked catseye
  • Cryptantha scoparia – desert cryptantha, pinyon desert cryptantha
  • – pine cryptantha, pinewoods cryptantha
  • – slender cryptantha
  • – Torrey's catseye
  • – Trask's cryptantha
  • – scented catseye, Utah cryptantha
  • – Watson's cryptantha

Formerly placed here[]

Many Cryptantha have been transferred to other genera:[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e 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. ^ a b 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).
  3. ^ WTU Herbarium
  4. ^ "Cryptantha crymophila". Calflora: Information on California plants for education, research and conservation. Berkeley, California: The Calflora Database – via www.calflora.org. {{citation}}: External link in |via= (help)

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