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Thunbergia grandiflora

Botanic Family

Acanthaceae

Author

(Roxburgh ex Rottler) Roxburgh

Common Names

• Sky-flower
• Bengal Clockvine
• Blue Trumpet Vine
• Clock Vine
• Sky Vine
• Blue Skyflower
• Kag Phuli (Danuwar)
• Kauwa Latti (Danuwar)
• Kag Chuchche (Nepali)
• Gau Lahara (Tamang)
• Kaulun Thunga (Tamang)
• Bengal Trumpet
• Shan qian niu (Pinyin)
• Nil Lata (India)
• Fausto
• Pan-ye-sut-nwe (Myanmar)
• Koto ma tang (Pinyin)
• Chang huang mao shan qian niu (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• N. India
• Sikkim
• Pakistan
• Assam to Myanmar
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Fujian
• Yunnan-China
• Indo-China
• Nepal
• Philippines
• Thailand

Natural Habitats

• Moist places
• bamboo forest
• disturbed areas
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Spring-autumn
• Jan-Feb (Thailand) May-Oct (China)

Fruiting Times

• Sep to Dec

Large woody liana or perennial evergreen woody twining vine with glabrous or yellow hairy stems, axillary or terminal racemes or cymes to 600mm withpubescent bracts, 80mm x 70mm blue flowers, lobes pale yellow to nearly white, cream throat with purplish guide lines. Twiner, fruit a pubescent capsule to 50mm long with long beak, toothed leaves puberulous above, glabrous or puberulous beneath

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Jones & Gray 1977, Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• Manandhar 2002
• FOH
• RHS A-Z
• FOC
• net
• Llamas
• Chudian 2001
• Bodkin
• Exotica
• JDH
• VOPR
• USNH
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• FOMP