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Gunnera × cryptica J.M.H.Shaw

Gunneraceae

A hybrid: G. manicata × G. tinctoria, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

No habitat climate
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Summary

Gunnera × cryptica is a hybrid between Gunnera manicata and Gunnera tinctoria. Both species were introduced into cultivation in Western Europe towards the end of the 19th century. The hybrid occurred spontaneously in cultivation, in Europe probably around 1873. Both morphological and molecular analyses have shown that plants widely cultivated in Britain and Ireland under the name Gunnera manicata were all the hybrid, and that the true species G. manicata is no longer found there. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Gunnera × cryptica", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Gunnera

Gunnera is the sole genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Gunneraceae, which contains 63 species. Some species in this genus, namely those in the subgenus Panke, have extremely large leaves. Species in the genus are variously native to Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Papuasia, Hawaii, insular Southeast Asia, eastern Africa, and Madagascar. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Gunnera", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived. 7 of the 8 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

No native range: WCVP lists no region where it is native.
Openly licensed records, not tested against the stated range, framed on where they fall.
NativeWCVP lists no region where it is native; the regions it does list are named here. · introduced: Great Britain, Ireland · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial or rhizomatous geophyte” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 7 openly licensed records of 8 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 7 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Gunnera 24 in the reference

Gunnera albocarpa Gunneraceae Gunnera berteroi Gunnera berteroi Gunneraceae Photo: CC0, Matias Adolfo González Tobar Gunnera bogotana Gunneraceae Gunnera bracteata Gunnera bracteata Gunneraceae Photo: CC BY, Flavien SaboureauGunnera brephogea Gunnera brephogea Gunneraceae Photo: CC BY, EstebanMHGunnera cordifolia Gunnera cordifolia Gunneraceae Photo: CC BY, Nina KerrGunnera densiflora Gunnera densiflora Gunneraceae Photo: CC BY, Alice ShanksGunnera dentata Gunnera dentata Gunneraceae Photo: CC BY, Lorraine Cook Gunnera diazii Gunneraceae Gunnera flavida Gunneraceae Gunnera hamiltonii Gunnera hamiltonii Gunneraceae Photo: CC BY, Irisa HudsonGunnera insignis Gunnera insignis Poorman's umbrella Photo: CC BY, Martin Jung all 25 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Gunnera scabra var. longiscapa. (GBIF Backbone)

GBIFPOWOIPNIWikipedia POWO and IPNI by the numbers of Kew's entry for this hybrid

The record

Family
Gunneraceae
Described by
J.M.H.Shaw
Native to
not verified
Records
8 georeferenced · 7 open · range not tested

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry lists no native region, only 2 where it is introduced
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 13 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (13 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived
Wikidata wikidata nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Gunnera cryptica to Gunnera × cryptica, this species' name
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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