| Maurandella | |
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| In cultivation in Hawaii | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Maurandella (A.Gray)Rothm. (1943) |
| Species: | M. antirrhiniflora |
| Binomial name | |
| Maurandella antirrhiniflora | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Maurandella antirrhiniflora, known asroving sailor or (along with other similar species)climbing snapdragon, is a species offlowering plant in the familyPlantaginaceae. It is the sole species in genusMaurandella. It is a scrambling or climbingherbaceousperennialsubshrub native toMexico, the southwestern United States (California toTexas),Cuba, and theTurks and Caicos Islands, where it grows in a variety of relatively dry subtropical habitats.[1]
It has more-or-less triangular untoothed leaves and tubular flowers in various shades of pink, red or blue to violet with white bases. Unlike species in the genusMaurandya, the flowers have closed "lips".[2]
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