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Clerodendrum chinense

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Identification
Isotype of Viburnum deltoideum M.E.Jones [family CAPRIFOLIACEAE ] Clerodendrum fragans Schauer [family VERBENACEAE ] Verified by Harold Norman Moldenke, Clerodendrum chinense (Osbeck) Mabb. [family VERBENACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Clerodendrum fragrans
  • Rubus chinensis
  • Clerodendrum fragans
  • Viburnum deltoideum
  • Clerodendrum chinense
  • Cryptanthus chinensis

Information

Entry for Clerodendrum chinense (Osbeck.) Mabberley [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 5
Names
Clerodendrum chinense (Osbeck.) Mabberley [family LABIATAE]
Uses
Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended
Description
A sub-shrub 1½–2½ m high, flowers pink or white, double, seldom single to 2½ cm across, native of China and Japan, naturalised over Asian tropics, and in much of tropical Africa, and cultivated as an ornamental (2). It is recorded as present in Ghana (1).
References
References:1. Irvine, 1961: 753 as C. fragrans Vent. 2. Verdcourt, 1992: 95.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

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