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Manettia luteorubra
Manettia luteorubra
- Botanic Family
- Rubiaceae
- Author
- (Velloso) Bentham
Common Names
- Papagallo
- Firecracker Vine
- Brazilian Fire Cracker
- Twining Fire Cracker
- Manettia
- Southern Manettia
Geographical Habitats
- Argentina
- Minas Gerais
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Santa Catarina
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Paraguay
- Uruguay
- Colombia
Natural Habitats
- Forest edge
- forest
- tropical woodland
- rain forest
- shrubland
- riverside
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Evergreen herbaceous twiner with pubescent branches. Pubescent leaves to 115mm x 55mm. 1-3 axillary flowers, 50mm red & yellow tubular flowers with short hairs, 4-lobed pubescent calyx 10mm x 1.5mm,pubescent fleshy corolla to 24mm x 4mm, lobes & throat yellow. Turbinate red capsule 9mm x 6mm .
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Herklots 1976
- van der Spuy 1976
- Beckett 1990
- Huxley 1992
- Nicholls 1995
- P & R 1997
- Mobot
- RHS A-Z
- net
- Llamas 2003
- Bodkin
- FB
- The Plant List 2
- Gleason & Moldenke
- Kew