See text Cryptandra is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Australia.

Most plants in the genus Cryptandra are spiny, heath-like shrubs with small, clustered leaves and flowers crowded at the ends of branches, the flowers are usually small, surrounded by brown bracts, and with tube-shaped hypanthium, the petals hooded over the anthers.

[2][3][4][5] The genus Cryptandra was first formally described in 1798 by James Edward Smith in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.

[6][7] The genus name means "hidden man", referring to the stamens.

[8] The following is a list of species of Cryptandra accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at August 2022:[9]