Cymbalaria [SEP] parent taxon
Cymbalaria
Cymbalaria is a genus of about 10 species of herbaceous perennial plants previously treated in the family Scrophulariaceae, but recently shown by genetic research to be in the much enlarged family Plantaginaceae.
The genus is native to southern Europe. It is closely related to the genera "Linaria" and "Antirrhinum", differing in having creeping growth and flowers borne singly rather than in dense erect spikes. The common name toadflax is shared with "Linaria" and other related genera. The scientific name means "resembling a cymbal"
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