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Thunbergia erecta

Botanic Family

Acanthaceae

Author

(Bentham) T. Anderson

Common Names

• King's Mantle
• Bush Clock Vine
• Zhi li shan qian niu (Pinyin)
• Manto de Rey
• Kwa-nyo (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Tropical W. to S. Africa Ghana
• Guinea
• Liberia
• Sierra Leone
• Ivory Coast
• Nigeria
• Cameroon

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• Summer

Fruiting Times

Erect or sometimes scandent evergreen twining shrub with quadrangular glabrous stems, glabrous leaves 60mm x 25mm, 75mm yellow-cream with violet flowers or white with yellow throat, white outside, inflorescence with white bracteoles 20mm long, calyx with 5-9 teeth, corolla tube 40mm long with purple lobes 20mm long, fruit a capsule to 40mm long

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• FOC
• Aluka
• Llamas 2003
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• FOTA