7487.000 Asarina Mill.

MAURANDYA Ortega

Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.

Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z. (1976) Hortus Third. A concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., New York

Description of the genus

Mostly climbing herbs. Leaves usually triangular and palmately veined, alternate, at least above. Flowers axillary, showy. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla 2-lipped, white, pink, purple or blue; tube slightly gibbous; throat lacking a palate. Stamens 4. Capsule with 2 equal cells.

Differs from Antirrhinum in the climbing habit, the palmately-veined leaves, the lack of a palate (in most species) and the equal cells in the capsule.

Worldwide: c. 15 species of mostly climbing herbs in Europe and N. America, many in Mexico.

Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa.

Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

Species	Content
barclaiana (Lindl.) Penn.	Description
erubescens (D. Don) Penn.	Description, Image

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External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Asarina
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Asarina
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Asarina
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Asarina
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iNaturalist: Asarina
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Asarina
JSTOR Plant Science: Asarina
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Asarina
Plants of the World Online: Asarina
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Wikipedia: Asarina