1	"Leaves flat or with recurved or incurved margins, lower surface clearly visible"	"Cryptandra amara"
1	"Leaves terete (or nearly so) with margins revolute and almost or completely obscuring lower surface"	2
2	"Perianth longer than 3 mm, or, if slightly shorter, then style covered in hairs for at least the lower third"	3
2	"Perianth shorter than 3 mm; style hairy only at base"	5
3	"Perianth (2.7–) 3–4 mm long; bracts distinctly shorter than hypanthium; decumbent, wiry shrub of near-coastal heathlands in far east"	"Cryptandra ericoides"
3	"Perianth usually longer than 4 mm; bracts subequal to or exceeding hypanthium; rigid, divaricate shrubs of north-west and upper Snowy River area"	4
4	"Leaves sessile to subsessile; bracts acuminate; adaxial surface of bracts and stipules with coarse simple hairs; mallee areas"	"Cryptandra magniflora"
4	"Leaves with petioles apparent (0.2–0.8 mm long); bracts obtuse and glabrous adaxially; stipules glabrous adaxially; upper Snowy River area"	"Cryptandra speciosa"
5	"Hypanthium tube densely pubescent"	"Cryptandra sabulicola"
5	"Hypanthium tube more or less glabrous"	6
6	"Sepals with sparse simple hairs, especially toward tips; stellate hairs very sparse or absent; rare, recorded only from Little Desert"	"Cryptandra myriantha"
6	"Sepals with dense stellate hairs only, very rarely including a few simple hairs; widespread in mallee areas"	"Cryptandra tomentosa"