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Thunbergia coccinea
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Family:
ACANTHACEAE
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Citation: Thunbergia coccinea R. Grah., Edinb. Phil. Journ. 14: 150. 1826.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Thunbergia
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Description:
Climbing shrubs; stems 9-angled, subglabrous, pubescent at nodes. Leaves opposite, 8-15 × 3.5-11 cm, broadly ovate, ovate, or lanceolate, both surfaces pubescent, base rounded to cordate, margin undulate or remotely toothed, apex acuminate; palmately 3-5-veined; petiole 2-7 cm, grooved. Racemes axillary or terminal, to 35 cm, pendulous; peduncle 3-4 cm, pubescent; bracts lanceolate, abaxially pubescent, adaxially glabrous; bracteoles oblong, 2.2-2.6 × 1.1-1.5 cm, apex acute. Calyx ca. 2 mm, reduced to a minute rim. Corolla red; tube basally cylindric for 5-6 mm, throat 1.5-1.6 cm; lobes suborbicular, ca. 7 mm in diam. Staminal filaments 1.2-1.5 cm, glabrous but with a tuft of trichomes at base; anther thecae parallel, unequal with longer one ca. 5.5 mm and shorter one ca. 4.5 mm, spurred at base. Ovary glabrous; style glabrous, exserted; stigma 2-cleft. Capsule glabrous, basal part 1-1.2 × 1.5-2 cm, beak 1.5-2.3 cm; seeds compressed, ovate in outline, verrucose.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-April
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District(s):
Idukki, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plant
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Distribution:
North East India to Malaysia
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Red
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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