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Manettia cordifolia

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Martius

Common Names

• Firecracker Vine
• Coral

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Espirito Santo
• Goiás
• Mato Grosso
• Minas Gerais
• Paraiba
• Paraná
• Pernambuco
• Rio de Janeiro
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Uruguay

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverbank
• grassland
• montane areas
• disturbed areas.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec Late Winter to Summer

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

large evergreen herbaceous twiner or scandent shrub with pubescent or glabrous striate branches. Leaves to 145mm x 90mm, finely pubescent on both surfaces. Axillary & terminal solitary or cyme-like inflorescences with small bracts, 50mm long red or orange axillary tubular flowers, villous inside, glabrous outside, calyx with 4 lobes to 11.5mm x 4mm, bright red corolla to 60mm lon with lobes to 5mm long, glabrous outside, densely pubescent within. Mostly glabrouscapsule to 15mm x 8mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• NYBG
• Mobot
• RHS A-Z
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew