Cryptocoryne Fisch. ex Wydler sec CATE Araceae, 2009 urn:lsid:cate-araceae.org:taxon:5cac7435-6bfb-1014-a918-dc439151c9e5
Fisch. ex Wydler 1830. Linnaea. 5: 428
Distinguishing Features
Submerged or emergent aquatics, helophytes or facultative rheophytes; leaf blade linear to ovate or cordate; spathe tube with connate margins; spadix entirely enclosed in the spathe tube; flowers unisexual, perigone absent; anther thecae horned. Differs from Lagenandra in female zone of single whorl of connate flowers, upper spathe margins mostly connate into a tube (except Cryptocoryne spiralis), berries connate into a syncarp that opens from the apex, leaf vernation convolute.
Distribution
Trop. & Subtrop. Asia.
