Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Dicotyledon Literature for Anredera cordifolia
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
   Asteraceae -- The Sunflower Family Bibliography
      Anredera cordifolia

Common name(s): `uala hupe, Madeira vine, mignonette vine
General Information
DistributionNative from Paraguay to southern Brazil and northern Argentina, widely cultivated in tropical regions.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i.
















Habit
Plants from thick rhizomes; stems usually 3-6 m long.
Leaves
Leaves ovate or sometimes lanceolate, 1-11 cm long, 0.8-8 cm wide, producing small axillary tubercles at base.
Flowers
Racemes simple or 2-4-branched, 4-30 cm long, pedicels 1.5-2 mm long, each flower subtended by a minute persistent bract; receptacle cup-shaped by 2 persistent hyaline bracteoles, the upper 2 greenish white, broadly elliptic to suborbicular, ca. 1-2 mm long; corolla white, the lobes ovate-oblong to elliptic, 1-3 mm long; stamens white; style white, 3-cleft nearly to base.
Fruit
Fruit unknown.
Chromosomes
2n = 24