Maurandya wislizeni

Maurandya wislizeni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Genus: Maurandya
Species: M. wislizeni
Binomial name
Maurandya wislizeni
Engelm. ex A.Gray[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Antirrhinum wislizeni (Engelm. ex A.Gray) Tidestr.
  • Asarina wislizeni (Engelm. ex A.Gray) Pennell
  • Epixiphium wislizeni (Engelm. ex A.Gray) Munz

Maurandya wislizeni is a scrambling or climbing herbaceous annual native to Mexico and the south western United States (Texas, Arizona and New Mexico) where it grows in sand dunes. It has tubular flowers in shades of blue to violet and white and more-or-less triangular untoothed leaves. It has been placed in a separate genus as Epixiphium wislizeni.[3]

The epithet wislizeni commemorates Friedrich Adolph Wislizenus. It is regularly misspelt "wislizenii".

Growing in sand dunes

References

  1. "Maurandya wislizeni", The Plant List, retrieved 2014-08-16
  2. "Maurandya wislizeni Englm. ex A. Gray", Tropicos, retrieved 2014-07-16
  3. Elisens, Wayne J. (1985), "Monograph of the Maurandyinae (Scrophulariaceae-Antirrhineae)", Systematic Botany Monographs 5: 1–97, doi:10.2307/25027602, JSTOR 25027602


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