General Information

COMMON NAMES: Red Clerodendrum, Pagoda Flower; German Pagodenblume TRADITIONAL NAMES: Pītate Māma‘o? (MG), Rākau Tupopoku (AT) GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE India - Malesia COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Naturalised; Land, lowlands, horticultural SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Ornamental flowers; Weed - moderate KEY FEATURES: Shrub to 3m, with opposite heart-shaped unlobed leaves, 20x20cm, densely furry. Flowers in open terminal clusters ("pagoda-like"), red, with long backward-curved petals; and drooping stamens. SIMILAR SPECIES: Clerodendron paniculatum differs in having leaves which are sharp-lobed and sparsely hairy, flowers which are star shaped with short petal-lobes, and stamens which extend straight out from the flower tube.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present    Makatea: Present
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
+?	++++	+++	++	-	-	-		-

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
-	+	-	-	-	-

Clerodendrum buchananii var. fallax (Lindl.)
SYNONYMS: Clerodendrum speciosissimum [if this variety is treated as a separate species]; Clerodendrum fallax [incl. GW]

TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); MAGNOLIOPSIDA (=Dicotyledones); ASTERIDAE; Lamiales; VERBENACEAE

SIGNIFICANCE NOTES -
POSITIVE SIGNIFICANCE: Ornamental flowers
NEGATIVE SIGNIFICANCE: Weed - moderate. Comments: A general weed of waste and fallow areas on the makatea islands.

Vouchers:
None Recorded.

References:
p.731 Neal - In Gardens of Hawaii
p.266 Royal Hort. Soc. Index of Garden Plants
p.917 Tropica
p.5/211 A.C.Smith - Flora Vitiensis Nova
p.92 R Wilder - Flora of Rarotonga
p.404a Whistler - Ethnobotany of the Cook Islands

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zD02

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