Biology:Maurandya wislizeni

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Maurandya wislizeni
Maurandya wislizeni 9Jun07 0040.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
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]
  • (Engelm. ex A.Gray) Munz (Engelm. ex A.Gray) Tidestr.
  • Asarina wislizeni Antirrhinum wislizeni
  • (Engelm. ex A.Gray) Pennell Epixiphium wislizeni

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, http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-29201049, retrieved 2014-08-16 
  2. "Maurandya wislizeni Englm. ex A. Gray", Tropicos, http://www.tropicos.org/Name/29201049, 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 

Wikidata ☰ Q3055831 entry