# Critonia
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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Critonia morifolia.jpg
| image_caption = ''Critonia morifolia''
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Critonia
| authority = [P.Browne](/source/P.Browne)
| type_species_authority = ([L.](/source/Carl_Linnaeus)) [DC.](/source/DC.)
| type_species = ''[Critonia dalea](/source/Critonia_dalea)''
| synonyms_ref = [[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 }}]
| synonyms = * ''Dalea'' P.Browne 1756,[[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]] rejected name, not Mill. 1754 ([Solanaceae](/source/Solanaceae)) nor L. 1758 ([Fabaceae](/source/Fabaceae)) nor Gaertn. 1788 ([Scrophulariaceae](/source/Scrophulariaceae)) nor P.Browne 1756[[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]]
}}
'''''Critonia''''' is a genus of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the tribe Eupatorieae of the family [Asteraceae](/source/Asteraceae).[{{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}}][[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40016616 Tropicos, ''Critonia'' P. Browne ]]
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.[King, R. M. and H. Robinson. 1987. The genera of the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). Monographs in Systematic Botany, Missouri Botanical Garden 22: 1-581.]
; Species
The genus is native to Mexico, Central America, South America, and the [West Indies](/source/West_Indies).[
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* ''[Critonia arachnoidea](/source/Critonia_arachnoidea)'' (Legname) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia aromatisans](/source/Critonia_aromatisans)'' (DC.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia bartlettii](/source/Critonia_bartlettii)'' (B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia billbergiana](/source/Critonia_billbergiana)'' (Beurl.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia breedlovei](/source/Critonia_breedlovei)'' R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia campechensis](/source/Critonia_campechensis)'' (B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia conzattii](/source/Critonia_conzattii)'' (Greenm.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia dalea](/source/Critonia_dalea)'' (L.) DC.
* ''[Critonia daleoides](/source/Critonia_daleoides)'' DC.
* ''[Critonia dominicensis](/source/Critonia_dominicensis)'' R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia eggersii](/source/Critonia_eggersii)'' (Hieron.) R.M.King & H.Rob. - Ecuador][{{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}}]
* ''[Critonia eriocarpa](/source/Critonia_eriocarpa)'' (B.L.Rob. & Greenm.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia heathiae](/source/Critonia_heathiae)'' B.L.Turner
* ''[Critonia hebebotrya](/source/Critonia_hebebotrya)'' DC.
* ''[Critonia hemipteropoda](/source/Critonia_hemipteropoda)'' (B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia heteroneura](/source/Critonia_heteroneura)'' Ernst
* ''[Critonia hospitalis](/source/Critonia_hospitalis)'' (B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia iltisii](/source/Critonia_iltisii)'' R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia imbricata](/source/Critonia_imbricata)'' Griseb.
* ''[Critonia inaequidens](/source/Critonia_inaequidens)'' (Urb.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia lanicaulis](/source/Critonia_lanicaulis)'' (B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia laurifolia](/source/Critonia_laurifolia)'' (B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia lozanoana](/source/Critonia_lozanoana)'' (B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia macropoda](/source/Critonia_macropoda)'' DC.
* ''[Critonia megaphylla](/source/Critonia_megaphylla)'' (Baker) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia morifolia](/source/Critonia_morifolia)'' (Mill.) R.M.King & H.Rob. - Bolivia[{{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 }}]
* ''[Critonia naiguatensis](/source/Critonia_naiguatensis)'' (V.M.Badillo) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia nicaraguensis](/source/Critonia_nicaraguensis)'' (B.L.Rob.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia nubigenus](/source/Critonia_nubigenus)'' (Benth.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia paneroi](/source/Critonia_paneroi)'' B.L.Turner
* ''[Critonia parviflora](/source/Critonia_parviflora)'' (Sw.) DC.
* ''[Critonia peninsularis](/source/Critonia_peninsularis)'' (Brandegee) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia platychaeta](/source/Critonia_platychaeta)'' (Urb.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia portoricensis](/source/Critonia_portoricensis)'' (Urb.) Britton & P.Wilson
* ''[Critonia pseudodalea](/source/Critonia_pseudodalea)'' DC.
* ''[Critonia quadrangularis](/source/Critonia_quadrangularis)'' (DC.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia sexangularis](/source/Critonia_sexangularis)'' (Klatt) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia siltepecana](/source/Critonia_siltepecana)'' (B.L.Turner) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia spinaciifolia](/source/Critonia_spinaciifolia)'' (DC.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia stigmatica](/source/Critonia_stigmatica)'' (Urb. & Ekman) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia thyrsigera](/source/Critonia_thyrsigera)'' (Hieron.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia thyrsoidea](/source/Critonia_thyrsoidea)'' (Moc. ex DC.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia tuxtiae](/source/Critonia_tuxtiae)'' R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia wilburii](/source/Critonia_wilburii)'' R.M.King & H.Rob.
* ''[Critonia yashanalensis](/source/Critonia_yashanalensis)'' (Whittem.) R.M.King & H.Rob.
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==References==
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