Maurandya barclayana

Hairless herbaceous climber. Leaves more or less triangular, to 4 cm or so long, 3.5 cm wide, mostly 5-toothed. Flowers with stalks 2-5 cm long. Sepals long-pointed and sticky-hairy. Corolla to about 4 cm long, purple, paler towards the base; spring to summer. Fruit capsule to 1 cm long with a persistent style. [Asarina barclaiana (Lindl.) Pennell]

E Mexico

The specific epithet is sometimes spelt barclayana

Widely naturalised worldwide and occasionally naturalised in Australia in coastal districts N of Sydney and into Queensland.

 

Maurandella antirrhiniflora (HBK) Rothm. is sometimes mistaken for this species.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Scrophulariaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press. (as Maurandya barclaiana)

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Lamiales
family       Plantaginaceae
genus        Maurandya Ortega