Cryptantha minima

Cryptantha minima Rydberg
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 28: 31 (1901)

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Pronunciation/Pronunciación:
 Cryp-tán-tha mí-ni-ma
Etymology/Etimología:
 of diminutive size
Synonyms/Sinónimos:
 Heterotypic:
Eritrichium hispidum Buckley, nom. illegit., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 462. 1861 (1862)
[non Eritrichium hispidum Phil., Fl. Atacam. 38. 1860 = Cryptantha hispida (Phil.) Reiche]
Type/Tipo:

Rydberg & Vreeland 5697, 31 May 1900, USA: Colorado, Huerfano Co., Cucharas River, above La Veta
Holotype: NY00335178
Isotype: RM29848
Diagnostic features/
Caracteristicas de diagnstico:

      Cryptantha minima is distinctive in having bracteate flowers, sepals with thickened midribs, and four, heteromorphic nutlets in which the odd/large (adaxial) nutlet is finely and densely papillate and the three consimilar nutlets are papillate and coarsely tuberculate, both types with an attachment scar wide from middle to base, often excavated.

Johnston's 1925 Treatment

iNaturalist Observations: Research Grade

Phylogenetic Relationships:
Simpson_etal2017 cladogram including Cryptantha crassisepala
Mabry and Simpson 2018 cladogram including Cryptantha crassisepala
Cladograms from: Top, Simpson et al. 2017:1411, cpDNA results; Bottom, Mabry and Simpson 2018:64, Astral results.
In both results, Cryptantha crassisepala (var. elacantha) is sister to C. minima, these sister to a clade of C. kelseyana and C. fendleri.



Distribution:
Cryptantha_minima-BONAP-16Apr2013 map Cryptantha_minima-SEINet map
Left: Kartesz, J.T., The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2012. North American Plant Atlas (http://www.bonap.org/MapSwitchboard.html).
Right: SEINet. Click to see live records.


Holotype:

Cryptantha_minima-NY00335178 holotype
Cryptantha minima
Rydberg & Vreeland 5697, 31 May 1900 (NY00335178)
USA: Colorado, Huerfano Co., Cucharas River, above La Veta


Exemplars:

Cryptantha minima (POM369263) nutlet dorsal viewLarge/Odd Nutlet, dorsal view

Cryptantha minima (POM369263) nutlet ventral viewLarge/Odd Nutlet, ventral view

Cryptantha minima (POM369263) nutlet lateral viewLarge/Odd Nutlet, side view
Cryptantha minima (POM369263) consimilar nutlet dorsal viewConsimilar Nutlet, dorsal view
Cryptantha minima (POM369263) consimilar nutlet ventral viewConsimilar Nutlet, ventral view
Cryptantha minima (POM369263) consimilar nutlet lateral viewConsimilar Nutlet, side view
Cryptantha minima
(POM369263)


Cryptantha minima R.B. Kelley 2248, 16 July 2013 (SDSU20629) specimen Cryptantha minima R.B. Kelley 2248, 16 July 2013 (SDSU20629) specimen close-up1 Cryptantha minima R.B. Kelley 2248, 16 July 2013 (SDSU20629) specimen close-up2
Cryptantha minima
R.B. Kelley 2248, 16 July 2013 (SDSU20629)
USA: Montana, Carbon County
45.13682, -108.64412, 4970 feet (1515 meters)


Cryptantha minima Cain 1806, 19 June 2013 (SDSU20676) specimen Cryptantha minima Cain 1806, 19 June 2013 (SDSU20676) specimen close-up
Cryptantha minima
Cain 1806, 19 June 2013 (SDSU20676)
USA: Montana, Custer County
46.0761, -105.8616, 2672 feet (814 meters)




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