Snapdragon big

	Snapdragon big
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryotes
Kingdom:	Plants
Kingdom :	Green plants
Department:	Flowering
Grade:	Dicotyledonous
Order :	Asteranae
Order:	Luciferous
Family:	Plantain
Tribe :	Antirrhineae
Gender:	Snapdragon
View:	Snapdragon big
International scientific name
	Antirrhinum majus L. , 1753

The snapdragon is large ^[2] , the snapdragon is large ( lat. Antirrhinum majus ) - a species of herbaceous plants of the Podorozhnikovye family (Plantaginaceae).

Description

The snapdragon is big.
Botanical illustration from a book by O. V. Tome Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz , 1885

An annual herbaceous plant 30 - 70 cm high. The stem is branched, covered with glandular hairs at the top. Leaves are lanceolate, small above. Inflorescence is a thick brush ; flowers on thick pedicels . The calyx is yellowish - hairy, divided into ovoid lobes. Corolla light purple or whitish, 20-30 mm long. It blooms from June to September. The fruit is a box 12–17 mm long, with mesh-wrinkled seeds ^[3] .

The diploid set of chromosomes is 2n = 16 ^[4] .

Described from southern Europe . Type copy in London ^[3] .

Range

It lives in Southern Europe ( France , Portugal , Spain , Malta , Croatia ), North Africa ( Libya , Tunisia , Morocco ) and East Asia ( Cyprus , Israel , Lebanon , Turkey ) ^[5] .

Usage

Grown as an ornamental plant. Many varieties with lavender, orange, pink, yellow or white flowers have been bred ^[6] .

Taxonomy

Under this taxonomic name was described in 1753 by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in the work Species plantarum ^[7] . It is a typical species of the genus ^[8] .

According to The Plant List , the following names are included in the synonymy of the species ^[7] :

Antirrhinum grandiflorum stokes
Antirrhinum hispanorum Bordère ex Rothm.
Antirrhinum latifolium var. pseudomajus roue
Antirrhinum latifolium var. purpurascens benth.
Antirrhinum majus var. longipedunculatum regel
Antirrhinum majus var. peloria migout
Antirrhinum majus var. pseudomajus ( Rouy ) Rouy
Antirrhinum murale Salisb.
Antirrhinum vulgare bubani
Orontium majus Pers.
Termontis racemosa Raf.

According to The Plant List , the following names are infra-species ranks of the species ^[7] :

Antirrhinum majus subsp. cirrhigerum stokes
Antirrhinum majus var. faurei ( Maire ) Jahand. & Maire
Antirrhinum majus subsp. linkianum ( Boiss. & Reut. ) Rothm.
Antirrhinum majus subsp. litigiosum ( Pau ex Sennen ) Rothm.
Antirrhinum majus subsp. tortuosum ( Bosc ex Vent. ) Rouy

Notes

↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
↑ Large snapdragon : information on a taxon in the Plantarium project (a identifier of plants and an illustrated atlas of species).
↑ ¹ ² Kupriyanova L. A. Rod 1329. Snapdragon - Antirrhinum // Flora of the USSR : 30 tons / started at hand. and under chap. ed. V. L. Komarova . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1955. - T. 22 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin , E.G. Bobrov . - S. 226. - 861 p. - 3000 copies.
↑ Erich Oberdorfer. Pflanzensoziologische Exkursionsflora für Deutschland und angrenzende Gebiete.
↑ Antirrhinum majus L. (neopr.) . United States Department of Agriculture.
↑ Huxley, A, ed. New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. - 1992. - ISBN 0-333-47494-5 .
↑ ¹ ² ³ Big snapdragon (English) : information on the name of the taxon on The Plant List (version 1.1, 2013) .
↑ Details of the genus Antirrhinum (Neopr.) . in the Index Nominum Genericorum database of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy.

[1] For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .

[2] Large snapdragon : information on a taxon in the Plantarium project (a identifier of plants and an illustrated atlas of species).

[f-3] ¹ ² Kupriyanova L. A. Rod 1329. Snapdragon - Antirrhinum // Flora of the USSR : 30 tons / started at hand. and under chap. ed. V. L. Komarova . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1955. - T. 22 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin , E.G. Bobrov . - S. 226. - 861 p. - 3000 copies.

[4] Erich Oberdorfer. Pflanzensoziologische Exkursionsflora für Deutschland und angrenzende Gebiete.

[5] Antirrhinum majus L. (neopr.) . United States Department of Agriculture.

[6] Huxley, A, ed. New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. - 1992. - ISBN 0-333-47494-5 .

[h-7] ¹ ² ³ Big snapdragon (English) : information on the name of the taxon on The Plant List (version 1.1, 2013) .

[8] Details of the genus Antirrhinum (Neopr.) . in the Index Nominum Genericorum database of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy.