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Pyrostegia venusta

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(Ker-Gawler) Miers

Common Names

• Flame Vine
• Golden Showers
• Flame Trumpet
• Orange Trumpet Vine
• Orange-flowered Stephanotis
• Tango
• Chinese Cracker Flower
• Flame Flower
• Flaming Trumpets
• Cipo de S. Joao
• Flor se S. Joao
• Cipo Pe de Largatixa
• Maqueza de Belas
• Belas
• Tango Poi
• Orange Creeper
• Kyet-thon-pyu-nwe (Myanmar)
• Shwe-let-chaung (Myanmar)
• Shwe-zizawa (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Scrubland
• forest
• coastal
• floodplain forest

Flowering Times

• Winter-spring
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Feb

Evergreen woody trifid tendril liana with angular glabrous branches. 2-3 foliolate lepidote or puberulent leaves with leaflets to 70mm x 40mm. Terminal panicles or corymbs 150mm long of 100mm long orange flowers, lobes to 15mm long in dense terminal clusters, 70mm corolla tube, corolla villous inside to 60mm long with lobes 10mm x 5mm, villous 7mm calyx. Fruit a capsule to 300mm long x 16mm.

Further References

• E & M 1970
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• NYBG
• Mobot
• Llamas 2003
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• VOPR
• USNH
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Kew