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Tecomanthe dendrophila

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(Blume) Schumann

Common Names

• Tecomanthe

Geographical Habitats

• Maluku - Indonesia
• New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest edge
• lowland rainforest
• swamp forest
• riverine forest

Flowering Times

• Apr-Dec (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Nov (Malesia)

Tall evergreen woody liana to 30m, leaves with 5 or 7 leaflets to 130mm x 70mm, flowers produced on old wood to ground level in racemes, with trumpet-shaped 115mm pink-purple flowers, petal-lobes flushed pale yellow, coriaceous green tinged red calyx to 40mm long with triangular lobes to 15mm x 10mm, corolla to 110mm long including triangular lobes to 15mm x 20mm, beaked woody seedpod to 300mm x 32.5mm x 30mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• Llamas 2003
• The Plant List 2
• Flora Malesiana
• Kew