Flora of North America species comparison

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Misopates

misopates, snapdragon, weasel's snout
Habit Herbs, annual.
Stems

ascending or erect, glandular-pubescent.
Leaves

cauline, opposite proximally, alternate distally;

petiole absent;

blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins entire.
Inflorescences

terminal, racemes;

bracts present.
Pedicels

present;

bracteoles absent.
Flowers

bisexual;

sepals 5, basally connate, calyx bilaterally symmetric, short-cupulate, lobes linear, usually longer than corolla tube in flower;

corolla pink or purple with darker veins, rarely white, bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate and personate, cylindric or urceolate, 10–15 mm, tube base gibbous abaxially, not spurred, lobes 5, abaxial 3, adaxial 2;

stamens 4, basally adnate to corolla, didynamous, filaments glabrous;

staminode 1, lingulate;

ovary 2-locular, placentation axile;

stigma capitate.
Fruits

capsules, (5–)7–11 mm, dehiscence poricidal (adaxial locule, smaller adaxial locule sometimes indehiscent).
Seeds

200–250, dark brown, angled to obovoid, wings present.
x

= 8.

Misopates
Distribution
from USDA
s Europe; Asia; n Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America, s Africa, Pacific Islands, Australia]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 7 (1 in the flora).

Using molecular data, P. Vargas et al. (2004) and M. Fernández-Mazuecos et al. (2013) found Misopates to be monophyletic and sister to the Old World genera Acanthorrhinum Rothmaler and Pseudomisopates Güemes. Misopates is distinguished from related genera in the flora area by its annual habit, calyx lobes usually longer than the corolla tubes, and capsules with unequal locules.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 17, p. 36. Author: Craig C. Freeman.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae
Subordinate taxa
M. orontium
Name authority Rafinesque: Autik. Bot., 158. (1840)
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