- Cryptantha roosiorum
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Cryptantha roosiorum 
Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Asterids Order: (unplaced) Family: Boraginaceae Genus: Cryptantha Species: C. roosiorum Binomial name Cryptantha roosiorum
MunzCryptantha roosiorum is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name bristlecone cryptantha.
It is endemic to Inyo County, California, where it is known from only a a few occurrences in the northern Inyo Mountains.
It is a small, mat-forming perennial herb just a few centimeters high which grows from a woody caudex rooted in rocky soils. The leaves are up to about a centimeter long, oval to spoon-shaped, and hairy to bristly. The inflorescence is a dense cluster of tiny white flowers with five-lobed white corollas with yellow appendages.
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Categories:- NatureServe Critically Imperiled species
- Cryptantha
- Endemic flora of California
- Natural history of Inyo County, California
- Inyo National Forest
- Plants described in 1955
- Asterid stubs
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