Brazoria (plant)

Genus of plants

Brazoria

Brazoria truncata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Lamiales
Family:  | Lamiaceae
Subfamily:  | Lamioideae
Genus:  | Brazoria
Engelm. & A.Gray

Brazorion is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1845. It contains three known species, all endemic to the US state of Texas.[1][2]

The name Brazoria refers to the Brazos River.[3]

* Brazoria arenaria Lundell \- southern Texas
* Brazoria enquistii M.W.Turner \- central Texas
* Brazoria truncata (Benth.) Engelm. & A.Gray \- south-central to east-central Texas

Formerly included:

* Brazoria scutellarioides Engelm. & A.Gray = Warnockia scutellarioides (Engelm. & A.Gray) M.W.Turner \- Oklahoma, Texas, Coahuila

## References

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1. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. ^ Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution maps
3. ^ Amanda Neill, ed. (2005). A Dictionary of Common Wildflowers of Texas & the Southern Great Plains. TCU Press. p. 163\. ISBN 978-0-87565-309-9. OCLC 1162417755.

Taxon identifiers

Brazoria|

* Wikidata: Q3767844
* Wikispecies: Brazoria
* CoL: 8VVQT
* EoL: 38790
* GBIF: 2927453
* GRIN: 1693
* iNaturalist: 68040
* IPNI: 329946-2
* IRMNG: 1311184
* ITIS: 32462
* NCBI: 457126
* Open Tree of Life: 105509
* PLANTS: BRAZO
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329946-2
* Tropicos: 40031364
* WFO: wfo-4000005377