Clerodendrum viscosum Vent.

 
  • Family : VERBENACEAE
    (VERBENA OR VERVAIN FAMILY)
  • Family (as per The Plant List) : Lamiaceae
  • Species : Clerodendrum viscosum
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Clerodendrum infortunatum L.
  • Common name : Hill Glory Bower
  • Vernacular name : Banth (Hin.); Naye Bela (Kan.); Perugilai (Tam.); Bommala marri, Bockada (Tel.); Buhasin, Sweta bhaunarmala, Bada rasna, Anguti, Kunti, Madhvi (Ori.); Bahandera (San.)
  • Collection Nos : HJCB-0463
  • Collector(s) Name : K.R.K.Swamy, Arun Singh R., K.Sankara Rao & Navendu Page
  • Collection Date : 24/02/16
  • Collection Locality : Chandaka, Khurda district, Odisha State
  • Habitat : Degraded deciduous forest
  • Habit : Shrub
  • Flower, Fruit : October-July
  • Native : India
  • Comments : Frequent in Eastern Ghats in shady places, edges of forests and along streams. Sometimes a gregarious colonizer of wastelands.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Visakhapatnam district, East Godavari district (Andhra Pradesh State); Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district), Khurda district (Odisha State)
  • World Distribution : India, Himalaya, Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, South China, Indo-China, Hainan, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Malaysia; naturalized in Brazil and often cultivated
  • Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Naidu, M.T, O.A. Kumar & M. Venkaiah (2015). Vascular plant diversity in the sacred grove of Modapalli in Viskhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(10): 7683-7690
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Clerodendrum viscosum. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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