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|accepted_name=Antirrhinum
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 612. 1753
|year=1753
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|common_names=Snapdragon
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Antirrhinum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Plantaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Antirrhinum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek anti, like or resembling, and rhinos, nose, alluding to shape of corolla
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 5, 12, 13, 22, 42, 44
|treatment_page=page 16
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>[shrubs], perennial or annual. <b>Stems</b> erect, filiform, twining branches absent, glabrous or hairy. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, opposite proximally, alternate distally; petiole absent [present]; blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal [axillary], racemes [flowers solitary]; bracts present. <b>Pedicels</b> present; bracteoles absent [present]. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; sepals 5, basally connate, calyx slightly bilaterally symmetric, cupulate, lobes ovate to lanceolate; corolla mauve, purple, red, yellow, or white, bilaterally symmetric, bilabiate and personate, tubular [funnelform], 25–45 mm, tube base gibbous abaxially, not spurred, lobes 5, abaxial 3, adaxial 2; stamens 4, basally adnate to corolla, didynamous, filaments glabrous, pollen sacs 2 per filament; staminode 0 or 1, minute; ovary 2-locular, placentation axile; stigma capitate. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, 10–15 mm, locules unequal, dehiscence poricidal. <b>Seeds</b> 20–100, light brown to brown, ovoid, reticulate, wings absent. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe (Mediterranean region);introduced also in temperate regions nearly worldwide.
|discussion=<p>Species 19 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Antirrhinum</i> is sometimes treated as a larger genus including both the species of Mediterranean Europe and the species of western North America (D. M. Thompson 1988). Here, the North American species are treated in five genera, <i>Howelliella</i>, <i>Mohavea</i>, <i>Neogaerrhinum</i>, <i>Pseudorontium</i>, and <i>Sairocarpus</i>, believed to be more closely related to one another than to the European species (D. A. Sutton 1988). There is not yet enough evidence to resolve these relationships; DNA sequence data seem to indicate that the European and North American species are sister groups and that there are at least two groups of closely related species among the American taxa (R. K. Oyama and D. A. Baum 2004; M. Fernández-Mazuecos et al. 2013).</p><!--
--><p><i>Antirrhinum</i> is distinguished from the segregate genera by the radially symmetric seeds, terminal (versus oblique) styles, and flowers more than 2 cm.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=thompson1988a
|text=Thompson, D. M. 1988. Systematics of Antirrhinum (Scrophulariaceae) in the New World. Syst. Bot. Monogr. 22: 1–142.
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name=Antirrhinum
|author=Kerry A. Barringer; Neil A. Harriman†
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
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|family=Plantaginaceae
|distribution=Europe (Mediterranean region);introduced also in temperate regions nearly worldwide.
|introduced=true
|reference=thompson1988a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Antirrhinum
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