Maurandya [SEP] parent taxon
Maurandya
Maurandya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae, native to Mexico and the south west United States (from California to central Texas). 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.
Description.
The species of "Maurandya" are
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of