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Clerodendrum splendens

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

G. Don ex James

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• gallery forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Mar
• Sep
• Nov Summer

Fruiting Times

Twining evergreen climber, small tree or shrub with glabrous branchlets. Glabrous coriaceous leaves to 150mm long. Terminal panicles or lateral cymes with bracts, of 25mm bright red or yellow flowers in dense cymes, calyx 6mm long with shorter lobes or teeth 6mm long, bright red corolla aging bright yellow, tube 25mm long with 5 lobes 12mm long, exserted stamens.

Further References

• E & M 1970
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• Mobot
• RHS A-Z
• Llamas 2003
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• FOL
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew
• Exotica