Cryptotaenia, or honewort, is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants, native to North America, Africa, and eastern Asia, growing wild in moist, shady places.
Species Six species are accepted by Plants of the World Online as of February 2025. Other studies suggested that the African and Canary Island species should be moved to other genera and that the Italian endemic Lereschia thomasii should be included in Cryptotaenia. In 2016 the Canary Islands endemic Cryptotaenia elegans was moved to genus Daucus as Daucus elegans.
Cryptotaenia africana (Hook.f.) Drude - GabonORSTOM. 1988. List Vasc. Pl. Gabon Herbier National du Gabon, Yaounde Cryptotaenia calycina C.C.Towns. - Tanzania Cryptotaenia canadensis (L.) DC. - eastern + central North AmericaBiota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map Cryptotaenia flahaultii (Woronow) Koso-Pol. - Republic of GeorgiaIUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Cryptotaenia flahaultii vulnerable rating Cryptotaenia japonica Hassk. - Japan, Korea, ChinaFlora of China Vol. 14 Page 80, 鸭儿芹 ya er qin, Cryptotaenia japonica Hasskarl, Retzia. 1: 113. 1855. Cryptotaenia polygama C.C.Towns. - Tanzania
Formerly placed here Daucus elegans (as Cryptotaenia elegans Webb ex Bolle)
References
External links Efloras.org: Taxonomy description of Cryptotaenia japonica Plants for a Future database.org: Cryptotaenia japonica