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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Epixiphium Munz (1926) |
| Species: | E. wislizeni |
| Binomial name | |
| Epixiphium wislizeni (Engelm. ex A.Gray) Munz (1926) | |
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Epixiphium wislizeni, commonly known as baloonbush, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family, Plantaginaceae. It is the sole species in genus Epixiphium. It is a scrambling or climbing perennial subshrub native to Chihuahua state in northern Mexico and the south western United States (Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas) where it grows in sand dunes. It has tubular flowers in shades of blue to violet and white and more-or-less triangular untoothed leaves.
The species was first described in 1859 as Maurandya wislizeni. In 1926 Philip A. Munz placed it in a separate genus as Epixiphium wislizeni. The species epithet wislizeni commemorates Friedrich Adolph Wislizenus. It is regularly misspelt "wislizenii".
References
- ^ Epixiphium wislizeni (Engelm. ex A.Gray) Munz. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
- Elisens, Wayne J. (1985), "Monograph of the Maurandyinae (Scrophulariaceae-Antirrhineae)", Systematic Botany Monographs, 5: 1–97, doi:10.2307/25027602, JSTOR 25027602
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