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Cryptocarpus
Sign in to saveCryptocarpus pyriformis which is commonly known as salt bush or monte salado is native to the Galápagos Islands as well as mainland Ecuador and Peru. It is the sole representative of the genus Cryptocarpus.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Nyctaginaceae
- Collections
- BRIT, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Peru
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Cryptocarpus pyriformis which is commonly known as salt bush or monte salado is native to the Galápagos Islands as well as mainland Ecuador and Peru. It is the sole representative of the genus Cryptocarpus.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cryptocarpus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.