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In cultivation, it is frequently known by one of its synonyms, such as Clerodendrum myricoides. [5] The cultivar 'Ugandense' is an untidy evergreen shrub growing to 4 m (13 ft) tall and 2.5 m (8.2 ft) broad, with oval leaves and masses of pale-violet blue butterfly-like flowers in summer and autumn. Each flower has a darker blue lower petal.
Clerodendrum was named by Linnaeus in Species Plantarum in 1753. [11] The name is derived from two Greek words, kleros, meaning "chance or fate" or "clergy", and dendron, "a tree". [12] It refers to the considerable variation in reports of the usefulness of Clerodendrum in medicine, [8] and also to the fact the trees were used for religious ...
Rotheca was named by Rafinesque in 1838. [5] The name is a Latinization of a Malayalam name meaning "small teak". [3] The Indian (Malayalam) name has had widely variant spellings.. In 1895, John Isaac Briquet included Rotheca in his rather broad circumscription of Clerodendrum. [6]
Rotheca serrata is a small bush growing to a height of up to 8 feet (2.4 m). The squarish stems are only sparsely branched. The young growth is glabrous and the leaves are in opposite pairs or develop with three at a node.
Clerodendrum glabrum is a small to medium deciduous tree, widespread from Tropical to Southern Africa. In common with others of this family, its bark is covered in prominent white lenticels . Leaves are usually in whorls of 3 and produce a fetid smell when crushed.
Clerodendrum splendens, the glory tree or flaming glorybower, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Clerodendrum of the family Lamiaceae, ...
Clerodendrum speciosissimum is a tropical shrub of the family Lamiaceae, native to Indonesia and Papuasia, but now naturalized in parts of Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, Seychelles, and Florida.
Clerodendrum phlomidis is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. The plant has been used in Ayurvedic medicine, and some Ayurvedic sources refer to it by the synonym Clerodendrum multiflorum. Clerodendrum phlomidis is a large shrub native to the Indian subcontinent and Myanmar.