Mexican Viper
Maurandya barclaiana
- Habit
- Climber
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu
How to identify Mexican Viper
Identify Mexican Viper by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a climber habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Trailing/climbing vine habit unusual for the family.
- Confirm leaf shape: Cordate.
- Confirm leaf venation: Palmate.
- Confirm flower colour: Blue/purple.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu.
- Confirm it sits within the Scrophulariaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Mexican Viper.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Maurandya barclaiana
- Genus
- Maurandya
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae
- Habit
- Climber
- Habitat
- Planted
- Habitat type
- Cultivated
- Native to
- Mexico
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- CordaterecordedHeart-shaped, with a notch at the base.“Its lamina leaves that are triangular-cordate or triangular-hastate, 1–3.5 cm in length and 8–30 mm wide.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf venation
- PalmaterecordedSeveral main veins radiating out from a single point at the leaf base.“It is palmately veined and has a petiole that is 1–1.5 cm long.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Mexican Viper itself; the rest are typical of the Scrophulariaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Blue/purplerecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Mexican Viper itself; the rest are typical of the Scrophulariaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Mexican Viper
Mexican Viper (Maurandya barclaiana) belongs to the Scrophulariaceae family, where it grows as a climber. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu. It is planted.
Scrophulariaceae
Figwort family
Mexican Viper belongs to the Scrophulariaceae family.
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