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Pyrostegia venusta
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Family:
BIGNONIACEAE
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Citation: Pyrostegia venusta (Ker-Gawl.) Miers, Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 3: 188. 1863; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 211. 1982; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 603. 2009.
Bignonia venusta Ker-Gawl., Bot. Reg. 3. t. 249. 1818.
Pyrostegia ignea (Vell.) Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 93. 1845; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1000(703). 1924.
Bignonia ignea Vell., Fl. Flum. 244. 1835.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Odumulla
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Golden shower, Flame vine, Orange trumpet vine, Hua Pala Vine
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Description:
Climbing shrubs with tendrils; branchlets angular. Leaves decussate, 2-foliolate; petioles to 1.5 cm long; leaflets 4-6 x 3-4 cm, ovate-lanceolate, rounded at base. Flowers in corymbose cymes, drooping, dense, rachis 10 cm long. Calyx 8 x 6 mm, caampanulate; lobres 5, small. Corolla crimson-orange; tube 6-7 cm long, limb 2-lipped, lobes of upper lip 2 cm long and of lower lip 1.5 cm long. Stamens 4, didynamous, exserted, filaments 3 and 4 cm long, curved basally.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-June
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District(s):
Kozhikkode, Wayanad, Idukki, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as an ornamental plant in the High Ranges
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Distribution:
Native of Brazil
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Orange
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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