Galapagos Species Database

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Galvezia leucantha subsp. porphyrantha Tye & H. Jäger

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Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Magnoliophyta

Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)

Order
Lamiales

Family
Plantaginaceae

Genus
Galvezia

Species
leucantha

Subspecies
subsp. porphyrantha

Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa

Family changed from Scrophulariaceae to Plantaginaceae, order changed from Scrophulariales/Plantaginales to Lamiales (P. Jaramillo & J. Villalba, 2023).

Origin: Endemic

Status

Critically endangered

References

  • Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
  • Atkinson, R. Jaramillo, P., Simbaña, W., Guézou, A. & Coronel, V. (2008) Advances in the conservation of threatened plant species of Galápagos. Galápagos Report, 97-102 (Eds L. Cayot and V. Toral). Puerto Ayora, Galápagos, Ecuador.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
  • Tye, A. Jäger, H. (2000) Galvezia leucantha subsp. porphyrantha (Scrophulariaceae), a New Shrub Snapdragon Endemic to Santiago Island, Galapagos, Ecuador Novon, 10(2): 164-168.
  • Guzmán, B. Heleno, R., Nogales, M., Simbaña, W., Traveset, A. & Vargas, P. (2016) Evolutionary history of the endangered shrub snapdragon (Galvezia leucantha) of the Galápagos Islands. Diversity and Distributions, 23(3): 247-260.
  • Dillon, M. O. Quipuscoa, V. (2014) Synopsis of Galvezia (Plantaginaceae: Antirrhineae), including a new cryptic species from southern Peru. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 8(1): 47-55.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Galvezia leucantha subsp. porphyrantha", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1115. Accessed 15 December 2024.