genus Cryptanthus Otto & A.Dietr.  (non Osbeck, 1757) (1836)

Synonyms:

• Cryptanthus (subgen. of Cryptanthus
• Pholidophyllum Visiani (1847)
• Madvigia Liebmann (1854)
• Eucryptanthus (subgen. of Eucryptanthus Mez (1891)
• Hoplocryptanthus (subgen. of Hoplocryptanthus Mez (1891)

Hoplocryptanthus (subgen. of Cryptanthus) Mez

Status: Synonym

Publ: Bromeliaceae (part 1) in Martius, C.F.P. von, Flora Brasiliensis 3(3): 202 (1891)