Scientific Name : Galphimia glauca Bartl.
Category : Angiosperms
Status : Alive
Gold Shower is a small evergreen tropical shrub that grows to a maximum height of about 6 ft and about as wide. young parts appressed-reddish hairy, glabrescent with age. Leaves alternate, elliptic-oblong, acute at base, obtuse to rounded at apex with an acute tip, 3-5 x 1-2 cm. Flowers 1-2 cm across, in terminal racemes, inflorescences overtopped by 2 lateral branches. Calyx lobes ovate, rounded or subacute at apex, sometimes recurved. Petals unequal, clawed, yellow; limbs 3-angled, entire. Fruits globose, brown. Flowering: All year.
Specimen Information
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Common Name(s):
Gold Shower, Rain of Gold, Spray of Gold
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Synonym(s):
Galphimia glauca Bartl. Thryallis gracilis (Bartl.) Kuntze Galphimia gracilis var. gracillima Hieron.
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Family:
Malphigiaceae
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Botany Department (DVP College, Nimgaon Sawa) -
Created On:
20-08-2022
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Galphimia glauca Bartl.
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