Cryptanthus

Accepted species 63 Documented here 1 Family Bromeliaceae

Accepted species 63 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Cryptanthus acaulis (Lindl.) Beer 8 documented
Cryptanthus dianae Leme 1 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus alagoanus Leme & J.A.Siqueira 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus apiculatantherus D.M.C.Ferreira, E.M.Almeida & Louzada 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus bahianus L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus beuckeri É.Morren 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus bibarrensis Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus bivittatus (Hook.) Regel 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus boanovensis Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus brevibracteatus D.M.C.Ferreira & Louzada 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus brevifolius Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus bromelioides Otto & A.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus capitatus Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus capitellatus Leme & L.Kollmann 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus colnagoi Rauh & Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus coriaceus Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus correia-araujoi Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus crassifolius Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus cruzalmensis Leme & E.H.Souza 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus delicatus Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus diamantinensis Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus dorothyae Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus felixii J.A.Siqueira & Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus flesheri E.H.Souza & Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus giganteus Leme & A.P.Fontana 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus grazielae H.Luther 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus guanduensis Leme & L.Kollmann 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus heimenii P.J.Braun & Gonç.Brito 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus ilhanus Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus incrassatus L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus lacerdae Antoine 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus lacerdae Van Geert 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus lutandensis E.H.Souza & Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus lutherianus I.Ramírez 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus lyman-smithii Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus marginatus L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus maritimus L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus minarum L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus osiris W.Weber 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus pickelii L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus pirambuensis D.M.C.Ferreira & Louzada 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus praetextus É.Morren ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus pseudopetiolatus Philcox 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus reisii Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus reptans Leme & J.A.Siqueira 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus rigidifolius Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus robsonianus Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus santateresinhensis Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus santosii Leme & E.H.Souza 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus seidelianus W.Weber 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus sergipensis I.Ramírez 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus solidadeanus Leme & E.H.Souza 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus tabuleiricola Leme & L.Kollmann 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus teretifolius Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus ubairensis I.Ramírez 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus univittatus Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus venecianus Leme & L.Kollmann 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus vinosibracteatus D.M.C.Ferreira & Louzada 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus viridipetalus Leme & L.Kollmann 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus viridovinosus Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus walkerianus Leme & L.Kollmann 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus warren-loosei Leme 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptanthus zonatus (Lem.) Vis. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.