Cryptotaenia DC.

First published in Coll. Mém. 5: 42 (1829)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Temp. Northern Hemisphere to Tropical African Mountains.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Arkansas, Burundi, Cameroon, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Ethiopia, Florida, Georgia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Japan, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Korea, Kuril Is., Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Peru, Primorye, Québec, Rhode I., Rwanda, Sakhalin, South Carolina, South Dakota, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Transcaucasus, Uganda, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Zaïre

Introduced into:

Austria, Colombia, Hawaii

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Coll. Mém. 5: 42 (1829).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Mém. Omb.: 42 (1829) nomen conserv.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Pringle, C.G. [s.n.] United States K002737100 Yes
Hale, J. [s.n.] United States K002737097 Yes
Lapham, I.A. [s.n.] United States K002737099 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] United States K002737098 Yes

Sources

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0