Mussaenda erythrophylla
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Mussaenda erythrophylla, Schum. & Thonn. Climber or trailer (or apparently sometimes erect), 30-40 ft., the shoots pubescent: lvs. ovate, acuminate, about 6 in. long, with about 10 lateral veins either side the midrib: fls. to 1 ½ in. long, in dense pedunculate cymes; calyx-tube very short, the lobes red and hirsute and one of them usually produced into a bright vermilion roundish lf. 2-4 in. long; corolla-tube cylindrical, red-hairy, the rounded apiculate lobes white or yellowish inside: fr. nearly or quite 1 in. long, egg-shaped, red-hairy. Trop. Afr. B.M. 8222. G.C. III. 50:91. Gn.W. 4:553.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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