Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Galvezia leucantha subsp. leucantha Wiggins

Boca de un dragón, Snapdragon

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Magnoliophyta

Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)

Order
Lamiales

Family
Plantaginaceae

Genus
Galvezia

Species
leucantha

Subspecies
subsp. leucantha

Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa

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

Origin: Endemic

Status

Endangered

References

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Jaramillo, P. (2000) Plantas amenazadas y medidas de conservación en varias islas del archipiélago. Informe Galápagos, 70-76 (Eds P. Ospina and E. Muñoz.). Quito-Ecuador: Fundación Natura y el Fondo Mundial para la Naturaleza (WWF).
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  • Lawesson, J.E. Adsersen, H. & Bentley, P. (1987) An updated and annotated check list of the vascular plants of the Galapagos islands. Rept. Bot. Inst., Univ. Aarhus 16: 1-74.
  • Porter, D.M. (1983) Vascular Plants of the Galapagos: Origins and Dispersal. In: Bowman, R.I., Berson, M. & Leviton, A.E. (eds.): Patterns of evolution in Galápagos organisms. Pacific Division, AAAS, San Francisco, California, p. 33-96.
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  • Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Galvezia leucantha subsp. leucantha", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=749. Accessed 31 October 2026.