Thunbergia coccinea

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Acanthaceae

The Acanthaceae are mostly herbs or shrubs comprising about 250 genera and 2,500 species, including twining forms. The leaves are simple , opposite and decussate; stipules are lacking. The flowers are bisexual , zygomorphic, and usually are associated with conspicuous , often brightly colored bracts. The calyx is usually deeply 4-5 lobed or sometimes is highly reduced with more numerous minute teeth. The corolla is sympetalous , usually 5-merous, mostly zygomorphic, and commonly 2 lipped. The androecium usually consists of 4 didynamous stamens or only 2 stamens adnate to the corolla tube or epigynous zone, alternate with the lobes . The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of 2 carpels, a single style, and a superior ovary with 2 locules, each with usually 2-10 axile ovules in one or two collateral vertical tiers . An annular nectary disk is usually found around the base of the ovary. The fruit is commonly an elastically dehiscent loculicidal capsule. The seed stalk or funiculus of each seed is modified into a hook shaped jaculator or retinaculum that functions in flinging out the seeds during dehiscence. -- Gerald Carr.

Physical Description

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 4-6' apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Thunbergia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 32 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

T. alata (Black Eye Susan) · T. alata 'African Sunset' (Black-Eyed Susan Vine) · T. alata 'Alba' (Black-Eyed Susan Vine) · T. alata 'Alba Oculata' (Black-Eyed Susan Vine) · T. alata 'Apricot Smoothie' (Black Eyed Susan Vine) · T. alata 'Blushing Susie' (Blushing Susie Black-Eyed Susan Vine) · T. alata 'Lemon Queen' (Black-Eyed Susan 'lemon Queen') · T. alata 'Lemon Star' (Black-Eyed Susan Vine) · T. alata 'Orange Beauty' (Black-Eyed Susan Vine) · T. alata 'Orange Wonder' (Black-Eyed Susan Vine) · T. alata 'Raspberry Smoothie' (Black-Eyed Susan Vine) · T. alata 'Salmon Shades' (Black-Eyed Susan Vine) · T. alata 'Smoothie' (Black-Eyed Susan Vine) · T. alata 'Spanish Eyes' (Black-Eyed Susan Vine) · T. alata 'Superstar Orange' (Black-Eyed Susan Vine) · T. battiscombei (Bengal Clock Vine) · T. coccinea (Thunbergia) · T. dregeana (Thunbergia) · T. erecta (Bush Clockvine) · T. erecta 'Alba' (King's Mantle) · T. erecta 'Fairy Moon' (Bush Clock Vine) · T. fragrans (Sweet Clock-Vine) · T. gibsonii (Orange Clock Vine) · T. grandiflora (Bengal Clock Vine) · T. grandiflora 'Antigua' (Bengal Clock Vine) · T. grandiflora 'Variegata' (Bengal Clock Vine) · T. gregorii (Orange Clock Vine) · T. laurifolia (Blue Sky Vine) · T. mysorensis (Clock Vine) · T. natalensis (Dwarf Blue Thunbergia) · T. togoensis (Bengal Clock Vine) · T. 'Sun Lady' (Black-Eyed Susan Vine)

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Further Reading

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• A manual of Indian timbers; an account of the growth, distribution, and uses of the trees and shrubs of India and Ceylon with descriptions of their wood-structure, by J. S. Gamble... London: S. Low, Marston & co. ltd., 1902. url p. 518.
• American flower garden directory: containing practical directions for the culture of plants in the flower garden, hot-house, green-house, rooms, or parlour windows, for every month in the year. With a description of the plants most de Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845. url p. 176.
• American flower-garden directory: containing practical directions for the culture of plants in the hot-house, garden-house, flower garden, and rooms or parlours, for every month in the year. .. Instructions for erecting a hot-house, g by Hibbert and Buist. .. Philadelphia: Printed for the authors by Adam Waldie, 1832. url p. 251.
• Annals of horticulture in North America for the year 1893. A witness of passing events and a record of progress. Comprising and account of the horticulture of the Columbian exposition, by L. H. Bailey. New York, Judd, c1894. url p. 208.
• Beeton's Dictionary of everyday gardening. .. to which is added a monthly calendar of garden work throughout the year. London, Ward, Lock, 1909. url p. 499.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45 2003 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 134, p. 422, p. 431, p. 437, p. 449, p. 584.
• Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United by L. H. Bailey. .. assisted by William Miller. .. and many expert cultivators and botanists. London: The Macmillan company, 1909. url p. 1799.
• Exotic flora, containing figures and descriptions of new, rare or otherwise interesting exotic plants...with remarks upon their generic and specific characters, natural orders, history, culture, time of flowering, &c.By William Jackson Hooker... 3 1827 Edinburgh, Printed for W. Blackwood; [etc., etc.]1823-27. url p. 195.
• Growth and tropic movements of plants, by Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. .. with 229 illustrations. London, Longmans, Green and co., 1929. url , p. 381.
• Hortus suburbanus Calcuttensis; A catalogue of the plants which have been cultivated in the Hon. East India Company's botanical garden, Calcutta, and in the Serampore botanical garden. By the late J. O. Voigt, printed under the superintendence of W. Griffith. Calcutta, Bishop's College Press, 1845. url p. 482.
• Illustrations of the natural orders of plants with groups and descriptions. Reduced from the original folio ed. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1868. url p. 224.
• Indian trees: an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian empire / London: A. Constable, 1906. url p. 497.
• List of trees, shrubs, and principal climbers, etc., recorded from Burma: with vernacular names / by J.H. Lace. Rangoon, Burma: Supt., Govt. Print., 1922. url p. 309.
• Loudon's encyclopaedia of plants; comprising the specific character, description, culture, history, application in the arts, and every other desirable particular respecting all the plants indigenous to, cultivated in, or introduced in Edited by Mrs. Loudon, assisted by George Don and David Wooster. London, Longmans, Green, 1866. url p. 1410.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 12, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 28, 2007:

• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5857485
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14837042
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:56230-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 896748

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