Dilip Walse Patil

Scientific Name : Tecomaria capensis (Thunb.) Spach

Category : Angiosperms

Status : Alive

Habit : An extensive shrub climbing by adventitious roots with bark cinnamon-brown, smooth, glabrous. Leaves : Opposite, imparipinnate compound, leaflets 7-9, sessile or sub-sessile, broadly ovate or lanceolate, glabrous. Flowers : Orange or pale scarlet- red, in terminal racemes. Calyx cup-shaped, teeth 5, corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, curved, ending in 4 lobes, the upper of which is notched. Stamens 4, didynamous, staminode present, anthers divergent, exserted, connective enlarged. Ovary on a cup-like disk, style long, stigma 2-lipped. Fruit : Capsule, many-seeded. Flowering and Fruiting Time : August - December Significance : Cultivated in gardens.