Native to Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is.; introduced into Aruba, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina, Cambodia, China South-Central, India, Jawa, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Queensland, Rodrigues, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Togo, Vietnam, West Himalaya (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 2 occurrences across 2 countries.
Location
Nicaragua, Esteli
13.25, -86.360833
Location Remarks
Km 168 on Hwy 1, 16 km N of Estelí, Cuesta de Kukamonga, nearly dry stream bed leading down to Río Estelí; dry forest draped with epiphytes, steep stream banks cut through soft conglomerates with dense epiphytes. 800-850 m elev.
Collectors
W. Douglas Stevens, Indiana Coronado, Olga Martha Montiel, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, M. Salazar
Notes
Roadside weed, herb 1 m tall, glandular-sticky, corolla white with orchid and yellow, fruits with green exocarp
Location
Mexico, Chiapas (Jiquipilas)
16.623278, -93.577278
Location Remarks
Cerro el Campanario.
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Martyniaceae
Genus
Martynia
Specific Epithet
annua
Authorship
L.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 6.1
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.6
Global rank
#76,495 of 335,497
Top 23%
Extinction probability
10%