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Thunbergia mysorensis (Wight) T.Anderson ex Bedd.

Mysore trumpetvine, Zapatito de muñeca

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Summary

Thunbergia mysorensis, the Mysore trumpetvine or lady's slipper vine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae. A woody-stemmed evergreen, this vine is native to southern tropical India. The specific epithet mysorensis is derived from the city of Mysore.

Text from Wikipedia, “Thunbergia mysorensis”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Thunbergia

Thunbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 150 species native to tropical and subtropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, southern Asia, New Guinea, and Australia. Thunbergia species are vigorous annual or perennial vines and shrubs growing to 2–8 m tall. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Thunbergia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Acanthaceae
Described by
(Wight) T.Anderson ex Bedd.
Native to
India
Wild records
121 in range· 45 open

At a glance

Warmest month
31°C
Mar, mean day; nights 18 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
2815mm/yr
10 wet months · peak Jul 683 mm (CHELSA)
Light
24–42DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a rainy season, June to August and October in the northern hemisphere, at the year's mean temperature, so called neither winter nor summer. Habitat rain 2815 mm a year, wettest July at 683 mm, driest January at 7 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 24 to 42 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 12.4 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Hexacentris mysorensis Wight; Hexacentris mysorensis subsp. lutea John Edwards; Thunbergia mysorensis (Wight) T.Anderson.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a rainy season, June to August and October in the northern hemisphere, at the year's mean temperature, so called neither winter nor summer.

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a rainy season with no name: 70% of the year's rain (2001 mm of 2815 mm) falls in June to August and October, whose mean temperature, 22.1 °C, is within half a degree of the year's, 22.6 °C, so it is neither the cooler nor the warmer part of the year. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to February and April.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 2815 mm a year, wettest July at 683 mm, driest January at 7 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

2815 mm a year at the habitat, 2001 mm of it June to August and October. Wettest month July at 683 mm, driest January at 7 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 896 mm to 5541 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 24 to 42 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 24 to 42 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 19, the highest 90th-percentile month 44).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 12.4 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 12.4 °C, the absolute minimum 10.4 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 33.7 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 14.9 °C in January (across the envelope cells 11.2 °C to 18.5 °C), warmest day 31.1 °C in March (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 12.4 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 55 to 76% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 24 °C in Jul to 31 °C in Mar; mean night from 15 °C in Jan to 21 °C in May. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 2815 mm of rain a year, most in Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 77 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 10.4 °C and the 99th-percentile day 33.7 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.10°15°20°25°30°35°33.7° 99th-percentile day (undated)10.4° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0500100015002000mm rainDLI 24–42RH 55–76 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 77 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C27 / 24–3030 / 26–3131 / 28–3330 / 28–3329 / 26–3225 / 23–2924 / 22–2825 / 22–2826 / 23–2826 / 24–2926 / 23–2926 / 23–29
Night °C15 / 11–1916 / 12–1918 / 15–2120 / 17–2321 / 18–2320 / 18–2320 / 17–2319 / 17–2319 / 17–2218 / 16–2117 / 14–2015 / 12–19
Rain mm7 / 2–278 / 3–3734 / 14–89116 / 35–194199 / 90–308556 / 81–1226683 / 94–1666459 / 120–1116301 / 159–495303 / 161–443122 / 42–24627 / 11–77
DLI36 / 34–3840 / 38–4142 / 40–4439 / 37–4335 / 31–4226 / 20–3224 / 19–2926 / 21–2929 / 27–3330 / 27–3230 / 27–3332 / 30–35
RH %56 / 52–5855 / 51–5857 / 49–6264 / 52–7068 / 57–7476 / 63–8176 / 64–8375 / 65–8173 / 64–7669 / 62–7363 / 57–6858 / 53–63

Each figure is the median across the 77 grid cells holding the 117 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1578:5129 (11.075, 76.475). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 10.4 °C, 1st-percentile night 12.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 33.7 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 77 distinct grid cells holding the 117 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1578:5129 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 11.00_76.250, lapse-corrected +623 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 994 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeIndia· introduced: Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Leeward Is. AB Ant
Kew's description“liana” · “wet tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker12.264, 75.466 · in the densest population, 77 records (64% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 121 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 45 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 12 km away. 623 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 121 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: Nadezhda Bortnikova, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Ben Costamagna, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Thunbergia mysorensis, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Phytochemical estimation and antioxidative potential Of thunbergia mysorensis (wight) t. Anders. Ex bedd in Uttarakhand, india
Maneesha Singh, GUNJAN KIMOTHI (2018) · International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences
α-Amylase inhibitory potential of Thunbergia mysorensis leaves extract and bioactive compounds by in vitro and computational approach
N. R. Kokila, B. Mahesh, Ramith Ramu, B. Roopashree (2023) · Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
Combined in vitro and in silico approach to define alangimarckine from Thunbergia mysorensis leaves as a potential inhibitor of α-glucosidase
N. R. Kokila, B. Mahesh, Ramith Ramu, S.G. Divakara (2025) · Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
Propagação de Thunbergia mysorensis (Wight) por estaquia
Willian Heintze, Henrique Belmonte Petry, Sérgio Francisco Schwarz, Paulo Vitor de Souza (2015) · Ciência Rural
Karyological diversity among six medicinally important species of Acanthaceae in Bangladesh
Nowshin Anjum, Chandan Kumar Dash, Syeda Sharmeen Sultana (2023) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
PHYTOCHEMICAL EVALUATION AND PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF Thunbergia species - A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
(2021) · International Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Allied Sciences
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Thunbergia 5 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
wikidata answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
wikipedia answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped
inat.taxon not asked
inat.photos.wild not askedcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: not asked: 10 wild photographs already from the GBIF download
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gbif.media answered
openalex answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped

Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 49 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.