Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Crossandra infundibuliformes
firecracker flower, crossandra
A small glabrous, evergreen undershrub, up to 1.5 m tall with terete branchlets. Flowers bright orange-scarlet with yellow throat; bracts lanceolate (WFO, 2022).
Widely cultivated in the tropics and is also propagated as a pot plant (POWO, 2022).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Scrophulariales
Family
Acanthaceae
Genus
Crossandra
Species
infundibuliformes
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Crossandra axillaris Nees
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 2007
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduction Pathway: Intentional
Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture
Introduced status: Human dependent
Invasive status: Unlikely to become invasive
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Its native range is South India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh (POWO, 2022).
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Guézou, A. Trueman, M., Buddenhagen, E., Chamorro, S., Guerrero, A.M., Pozo, P., Atkinson, R. (2010) An extensive Alien Plan Inventory from the Inhabited Areas of Galapagos Plos One/ www.plosone.org. Volume 5/ Issue 4/e10276
- WFO (2021) World Flora Online. Published on the Internet. http://www.worldfloraonline.org/ WFO (2021): World Flora Online. Published on the Internet; http://www.worldfloraonline.org.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
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"Galapagos Species Database, Crossandra infundibuliformes", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2116. Accessed 6 May 2025.