Gambelia (plant)

Gambelia
Gambelia speciosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Genus: Gambelia
Nutt.
Type species
Gambelia speciosa
Nutt.

Gambelia is a genus of flowering plants in the Antirrhineae tribe of the plantain family[1] commonly known as bush snapdragons.[2] This genus is native to northwestern Mexico, particularly the Baja California Peninsula, but species are also found on the coast of Sonora, Guadalupe Island,[3] and the Channel Islands of California.[2] The genus is named in honor of William Gambel (1823–1849), an American naturalist, ornithologist, and botanist.[4]

Species

Two species are commonly accepted:[5][3]

Two other species, originally described by Townshend Stith Brandegee from the Cape region of Baja California Sur,[6][7] are recognized by Kew's Plants of the World Online as of 2022,[1] but treated by other sources as just variable populations within the polymorphic Gambelia juncea.[2][3] See the taxonomy section of Gambelia juncea for details:

  • Gambelia glabrata (Brandegee) D.A. Sutton
  • Gambelia rupicola (Brandegee) D.A. Sutton

The genus Gambelia was previously submerged into the similar South American genus Galvezia. However, genetic and morphological analyses have supported the separation of the North and South American species into two genera.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Gambelia Nutt. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Elisens, Wayne J.; Nelson, Allan D. (1993). "Morphological and Isozyme Divergence in Gambelia (Scrophulariaceae): Species Delimitation and Biogeographic Relationships". Systematic Botany. 18 (3): 454–468. doi:10.2307/2419419. ISSN 0363-6445.
  3. ^ a b c Rebman, Jon P.; Gibson, Judy; Rich, Karen (15 November 2016). "Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Baja California, Mexico" (PDF). Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 45. San Diego Natural History Museum: 221 – via San Diego Plant Atlas.
  4. ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9.
  5. ^ "GRIN Species of Gambelia". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  6. ^ Brandegee, Townshend Stith (1903). "New Species of Lower California Plants". Zoe: A Biological Journal. 5 (9). San Diego, California: Zoe Publishing Co.: 167–168.
  7. ^ Brandegee, Townshend Stith (6 May 1916). "Species Novae Vel Minus Cognitae". University of California Publications in Botany. 6 (12): 360.