Cryptolepis

Accepted species 39 Documented here 6 Family Apocynaceae

Accepted species 39 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
Cryptolepis oblongifolia (Meisn.) Schltr. 121 documented
Cryptolepis dubia (Burm.f.) M.R.Almeida 24 documented
Cryptolepis cryptolepioides (Schltr.) Bullock 22 documented
Cryptolepis decidua (Planch. ex Benth.) N.E.Br. 15 documented
Cryptolepis sinensis (Lour.) Merr. 12 documented
Cryptolepis obtusa N.E.Br. 5 documented
Cryptolepis grandiflora Wight 2 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis socotrana (Balf.f.) Venter 2 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis africana (Bullock) Venter & R.L.Verh. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis angolensis Welw. ex Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis apiculata K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis arbuscula (Radcl.-Sm.) Venter 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis baumii N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis capensis Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis delagoensis Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis eburnea (Pichon) Venter 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis gillettii Hutch. & E.A.Bruce 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis gossweileri S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis hensii N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis hypoglauca K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis ibayana L.Joubert & Venter 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis intricata (Balf.f.) Venter 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis javanica (Blume) Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis laurentii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis macrophylla (Radcl.-Sm.) Venter 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis microphylla Baill. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis migiurtina Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis nigrescens (Wennberg) L.Joubert & Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis nugaalensis Venter & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis orbicularis Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis pendulina (Venter & D.V.Field) P.I.Forst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis producta N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis ruspolii Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis sanguinolenta (Lindl.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis sizenandi Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis somaliensis Venter & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis stefaninii Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis volubilis (Balf.f.) O.Schwartz 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptolepis yemenensis Venter & R.L.Verh. 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.