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The genus Cryptanthus is in the family Bromeliaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cryptanthus

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cryptanthus acaulis (Lindl.) Beer	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus alagoanus Leme & J.A.Siqueira	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus bahianus L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus beuckeri E.Morren	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus bibarrensis Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus bivittatus (Hook.) Regel	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus bromelioides Otto & A.Dietr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus burle-marxii Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus capitatus Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus caracensis Leme & E.Gross	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus caulescens I.Ramírez	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus colnagoi Rauh & Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus coriaceus Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus correia-araujoi Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus crassifolius Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus delicatus Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus diamantinensis Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus dianae Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus dorothyae Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus exaltatus H.E.Luther	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus felixii J.A.Siqueira & Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus fernseeoides Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus fosterianus L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus giganteus Leme & A.P.Fontana	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus glaziovii Mez	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus grazielae H.Luther	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus incrassatus L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus lacerdae Antoine	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus latifolius Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus lavrasensis Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus leopoldo-horstii Rauh	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus leuzingerae Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus lutherianus I.Ramírez	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus lyman-smithii Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus marginatus L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus maritimus L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus microglazioui I.Ramírez	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus minarum L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus odoratissimus Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus osiris W.Weber	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus pickelii L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus praetextus E.Morren ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus pseudoglaziovii Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus pseudopetiolatus Philcox	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus pseudoscaposus L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus regius Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus reisii Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus reptans Leme & J.A.Siqueira	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus roberto-kautskyi Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus sanctaluciae Leme & L.Kollmann	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus scaposus E.Pereira	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus schwackeanus Mez	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus seidelianus W.Weber	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus sergipensis I.Ramírez	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus teretifolius Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus tiradentesensis Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus ubairensis I.Ramírez	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus warasii E.Pereira	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus warren-loosei Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus whitmanii Leme	Accepted		WCSP
Cryptanthus zonatus (Vis.) Beer	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 85 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cryptanthus. Of these 61 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 22 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cryptanthus. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 85 species names for the genus Cryptanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	61	71.8%
◕	Synonym	18	21.2%
◕	Unplaced	6	7.1%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 107 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cryptanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	64	59.8%
◕	Synonym	37	34.6%
◕	Unplaced	6	5.6%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 85 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cryptanthus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	61	12	0	0	73	85.9%
	Medium confidence	0	6	0	0	6	7.1%
	Low confidence	0	0	6	0	6	7.1%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Cryptanthus, are as follows: