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Clerodendrum umbellatum

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Poiret

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• forest
• riverside
• montane areas
• woodland
• partly shaded or unshaded savannah
• scrubland

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Jun
• Jul
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Jun
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct

Shrubby scrambling climber, angular pubescent branchlets. Leaves glabrous above hairy beneath 125mm x 75mm. Terminal panicles or corymbs with bracts, yellow & maroon or white flowers with red centre or 100mm white tinted pink flowers, pubescent white, pink or purple calyx to 8mm long with 5 lobes, white or cream corolla tinged pink in throat, tube 20mm long with lobes 8mm long, exserted stamens. Round black-green drupe supported by persistent red calyx.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• FCP
• The Plant List 2
• Phytologia
• FOTA
• FOL
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew