Galapagos Species Database

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

Galvezia leucantha subsp. leucantha Wiggins

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).

Taxon origin: Endemic

Status

Endangered

References

  • Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
  • Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
  • 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).
  • 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/
  • 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.