Crantzia

Crantzia is a plant genus in the family Gesneriaceae. Crantzia species grow in damp or wet forests, mostly on Caribbean islands. Some are epiphytes, others are subshrubs or herbaceous plants with fibrous roots.^[3]

Crantzia
Close-up of Crantzia cristata in bloom
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Gesneriaceae
Genus:	Crantzia Scop.
Species
Crantzia cristata (L.) Scop.[1] Crantzia tigrina (H.Karst.) Fritsch[2]
Synonyms
Lophia Desv. (1825) Lophalix Raf. (1838) Heintzia Karst. (1848) Prionoplectus Oerst. (1858)

Several taxa from the Gesneriaceae genus Alloplectus have been reclassified as Crantzia.

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli named the genus after botanist and physician Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz (1722–1799).^[3]