• Family : Verbenaceae
  (VERBENA or VERVAIN FAMILY)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Lamiaceae
• Synonym(s) : Clerodendrum viscosum Vent.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Clerodendrum infortunatum L.
• Common name : Hill Glory Bower
• Vernacular name : Basavana pada (Kannada); Bhant (Bengali); Raajbeli (Nepali)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Degraded forests areas and also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Roots and juice of plant used medicinally
• Key identification features : Flowers pubescent, white, pink tinged. Drupe black
• Native : Indian Subcontinent to Indo-China and Peninsula Malaysia.
• World Distribution : Andaman Is., Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Malaya, Sri Lanka, Thailand
• Literature : Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 317; Chowdhery, H. J. & Wadhwa, B. H (1984). Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol. 1. Published BSI: 557
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Clerodendrum infortunatum. Downloaded on 29 November 2020.

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