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Agnimanth (Kshudra-Agnimanth) (Species 1)

Common Names


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CLASSIFICATION


TAXON 


Clerodendrum inerme (L.) Gaertn.

FAMILY 


Lamiaceae Martinov

ALTERNATE FAMILY


nom. cons.

OTHER FAMILY:


Verbenaceae

TRIBE


Teucrioideae

GENUS 


Clerodendrum L.

SPECIES


inerme (L.) Gaertn. Fruct. sem. pl. 1:271. 1788


Plant Description


An erect to scandent or trailing, evergreen shrub, up to 3 m tall, commonly used for hedges round the gardens etc. Leaves elliptic-ovate to obovate, opposite, entire, petiolate, subcoriaceous. Flowers white, in axillary, trichotomous cymes, terminating the branches, c. 2 cm across; pedicels 1.5-4 cm long; bracts minute, linear. Calyx 5-6 mm long, cupular, minutely 5-toothed, persistent, slightly broader than the base of corolla-tube. Corolla-tube 2.5-3.5 cm long, glabrous; lobes ovate, c. 8 mm long, obscurely crenulate, obtuse. Stamen filaments pubescent, dark violet or purple, much exserted, curved above. Drupe pear-shaped, c. 10 mm long, 4-lobed, glabrous, enclosed by the persistent calyx, green.

Flowering Period: Almost throughout the year.

 

*Description source:  Efloras.org

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