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Maurandya barclayana

Botanic Family

Plantaginaceae

Author

Lindley

Common Names

• Barclay's Maurandya
• Maurandia
• Twining Snapdragon

Geographical Habitats

• Mexico
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Dry scrub

Flowering Times

• Jun-Oct Nov Summer to Autumn

Fruiting Times

Perennial herb with twining shoots & petioles, glabrous stems. Glabrous leaves sometimes 5-lobed to 35mm x 30mm. 75mm long white to pink to deep purple flowers with white throats, tube downy, greenish & curved, lobes violet-purple, hairy calyx with 3 segments to 13mm long & 2 segments to 20mm long, pubescent bright violet corolla to 45mm long with lobes to 9mm long. 15mm capsules with persistent calyx.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• Exotica
• FOPE