{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Critonia morifolia.jpg | image_caption = ''Critonia morifolia'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Critonia | authority = P.Browne | type_species_authority = (L.) DC. | type_species = ''Critonia dalea'' | synonyms_ref = <ref name=m>[http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/default.aspx?Page=NameDetails&TabNum=0&NameId=e1cfc8ca-900b-4f1a-886b-68d794a8d23a Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist ] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20141116111911/http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/default.aspx?Page=NameDetails&TabNum=0&NameId=e1cfc8ca-900b-4f1a-886b-68d794a8d23a |date=2014-11-16 }}</ref> | synonyms = * ''Dalea'' <small>P.Browne 1756,</small><ref name=u>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11267760#page/329/mode/1up Browne, Patrick. 1756. The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica in Three Parts pages 314-315]</ref> <small>rejected name, not Mill. 1754 (Solanaceae) nor L. 1758 (Fabaceae) nor Gaertn. 1788 (Scrophulariaceae) nor P.Browne 1756</small><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11267760#page/504/mode/1up Browne, Patrick. 1756. The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica in Three Parts page 239]</ref> }}
'''''Critonia''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Eupatorieae of the family Asteraceae.<ref name=u/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Browne |first=Patrick |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42074 |title=The civil and natural history of Jamaica : in three parts. In three dissertations. The whole illustrated with fifty copper-plates : in which the most curious productions are represented of the natural size, and delineated immediately from the objects |last2=Browne |first2=Patrick |last3=Ehret |first3=Georg Dionysius |date=1756 |publisher=Printed for the author, and sold by T. Osborne and J. Shipton in Gray's-Inn |location=London}}</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40016616 Tropicos, ''Critonia'' P. Browne ]</ref>
The most notable trait that characterizes the genus is the presence of pellucid punctations caused by internal secretory pockets of the leaves - to be seen these must be viewed with a hand lens while holding the leaf up to light in most species of the genus. Most species of ''Critonia'' also have smooth opposite leaves, a shrubby habit, unenlarged style bases, relatively few (3-5) flowers per head, and imbricate involucres.<ref>King, R. M. and H. Robinson. 1987. The genera of the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). Monographs in Systematic Botany, Missouri Botanical Garden 22: 1-581.</ref>
; Species The genus is native to Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West Indies.<ref name=m/> {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''Critonia arachnoidea'' <small>(Legname) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia aromatisans'' <small>(DC.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia bartlettii'' <small>(B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia billbergiana'' <small>(Beurl.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia breedlovei'' <small>R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia campechensis'' <small>(B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia conzattii'' <small>(Greenm.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia dalea'' <small>(L.) DC.</small> * ''Critonia daleoides'' <small>DC.</small> * ''Critonia dominicensis'' <small>R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia eggersii'' <small>(Hieron.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> - Ecuador<ref>{{cite iucn |author=Montúfar, R. |author2=Pitman, N. |date=2003 |title=''Critonia eggersii'' |volume=2003 |article-number=e.T43162A10782736 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2003.RLTS.T43162A10782736.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}</ref> * ''Critonia eriocarpa'' <small>(B.L.Rob. & Greenm.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia heathiae'' <small>B.L.Turner</small> * ''Critonia hebebotrya'' <small>DC.</small> * ''Critonia hemipteropoda'' <small>(B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia heteroneura'' <small>Ernst</small> * ''Critonia hospitalis'' <small>(B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia iltisii'' <small>R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia imbricata'' <small>Griseb.</small> * ''Critonia inaequidens'' <small>(Urb.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia lanicaulis'' <small>(B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia laurifolia'' <small>(B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia lozanoana'' <small>(B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia macropoda'' <small>DC.</small> * ''Critonia megaphylla'' <small>(Baker) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia morifolia'' <small>(Mill.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> - Bolivia<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=40&taxon_id=242428420 | title = Critonia morifolia (Mill.) R. M. King & H. Rob. | work = Bolivia checklist }}</ref> * ''Critonia naiguatensis'' <small>(V.M.Badillo) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia nicaraguensis'' <small>(B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia nubigenus'' <small>(Benth.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia paneroi'' <small>B.L.Turner</small> * ''Critonia parviflora'' <small>(Sw.) DC.</small> * ''Critonia peninsularis'' <small>(Brandegee) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia platychaeta'' <small>(Urb.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia portoricensis'' <small>(Urb.) Britton & P.Wilson</small> * ''Critonia pseudodalea'' <small>DC.</small> * ''Critonia quadrangularis'' <small>(DC.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia sexangularis'' <small>(Klatt) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia siltepecana'' <small>(B.L.Turner) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia spinaciifolia'' <small>(DC.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia stigmatica'' <small>(Urb. & Ekman) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia thyrsigera'' <small>(Hieron.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia thyrsoidea'' <small>(Moc. ex DC.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia tuxtiae'' <small>R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia wilburii'' <small>R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> * ''Critonia yashanalensis'' <small>(Whittem.) R.M.King & H.Rob.</small> }}
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