page_title: Maurandya
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Maurandya / Taxonomy / Species
caption_attribution_description: English: Maurandya antirrhiniflora – flowers and leaves, Enchanting Floral Gardens of Kula, Maui
context_page_description: Maurandya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae, native to Mexico and the south west United States. They sprawl or climb by means of twining leaf stalks. One of the four species, Maurandya barclayana, is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant.
  The generic name is often misspelt as Maurandia. Two of its species have at times been placed in the genera Epixiphium and Maurandella.
context_section_description: As of  July 2014, four species are accepted:
  Maurandya antirrhiniflora Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. (syn. Maurandella antirrhiniflora (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Rothm.)
  Maurandya barclayana Lindl.
  Maurandya scandens (Cav.) Pers.
  Maurandya wislizeni Engelm. ex A.Gray (syn. Epixiphium wislizeni (Engelm. ex A.Gray) Munz)
  The partially closed flowers of M. antirrhiniflora compared to the open flowers of the other species have been a factor in some authorities putting it into a separate genus, Maurandella (or at least into a different section within Maurandya).  Elisens does not consider the differences sufficient to warrant such a move.
  M. wislizeni is somewhat different from the other species; for example, it is the only annual growing from a tap root. Some authorities have put it into a separate genus, Epixiphium, or in a separate section within Maurandya. This has been rejected by Elisens in his monograph on the subtribe to which Maurandya belongs, on the grounds that the overall similarities "indicate a close relationship among the four species". He does however place this species in a separate subgenus, M. subgenus Epixiphium, with the other three species in M. subgenus Maurandya.
caption: Maurandya antirrhiniflora, in cultivation
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