• Family : VERBENACEAE
  (Verbena Or Vervain Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SAGVAN FAMILY (सागवान फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAMIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Clerodendrum paniculatum L.
• Common name : Clerodendron, Orange Tower Flower, Pagoda Flower
• Vernacular name : Ratha pushpa, Ratha hoovu (Kannada); Arumasapoovu, Arumasachedi, Krishnakireedam, Hanumankireedam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Often cultivated in gardens
• Comments / notes : Naturalized
• Key identification features : A glabrescent undershrub, nodes hairy ; Leaves shallowly lobed, ovate with cordate base, membranous, glandular beneath,venation subpalmate,5- ribbed, Inflorescence a lax panicle, bracts conspicuous; corolla scarlet, lobes 5-6,spreading, fruit a 4 lobed drupe with one seeded pyrenes.
• Flower, Fruit : May-December
• Collection Nos : CJS 10962, CJS 13681
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Clerodendrum paniculatum. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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