Marcgravia rectifloraTriana & Planch.

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WFO wfo-0000450710 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Marcgravia rectiflora, photographed by ritirene
fig. a ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-01 / obs. 147938806
Marcgravia rectiflora, photographed by ritirene
fig. b ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148184068
Marcgravia rectiflora, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60875879
Marcgravia rectiflora, photographed by Steven Bachman
fig. d Steven Bachman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 987942
Marcgravia rectiflora, photographed by laiet17
fig. e laiet17, CC0 1.0 / obs. 109659772
Marcgravia rectiflora, photographed by Tom Kennedy
fig. f Tom Kennedy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172173302
Marcgravia rectiflora, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. g Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195314889
Marcgravia rectiflora, photographed by Elliot Greiner
fig. h Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181575488

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Marcgravia rectiflora is native: Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Peru, Puerto Rico ColombiaCubaDominican RepublicGuatemalaHaitiHondurasPeruPuerto Rico Leeward Is.
Native distribution of Marcgravia rectiflora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Leeward Is. LEE
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 233 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 17.1 °C 19.2 °C 21.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.5 °C 27.0 °C 30.3 °C
Annual rainfall 1,411 mm 2,825 mm 3,147 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 158 mm 454 mm 514 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 233 research-grade observations of Marcgravia rectiflora that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Marcgravia brittoniana Alain
  • Marcgravia jacquinii A.Rich.
  • Marcgravia macrocalyptra Delponte
  • Marcgravia rectiflora var. bracteolaris Triana & Planch.
  • Marcgravia rectiflora var. jacquinii Triana & Planch.
  • Marcgravia rectiflora var. rectiflora

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.