General Information

COMMON NAMES: Orange-trumpet Vine, Flame Flower, Flame Vine, Flaming-trumpet Vine; German Feuerranke GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Brazil - Paraguay - ne.Argentina COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Not naturalised; S.Group (RR - uncommon); Land, lowlands SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Ornamental flowers KEY FEATURES: Slender vine. LEAVES opposite, 2-3 leaflets and slender 3-branched tendril; LEAFLETS wide-oval, to 10x7cm, papery, base rounded, tip sharp. FLOWERS large clusters; orange, slender tube to 6cm; lobes 5 (2 fused), linear, to 2cm, rolled back. SIMILAR SPECIES: Cape Honeysuckle (Pyrostegia venusta) has compound leaf with leaflets 5-9, toothed (vs leaflets 2-3, without teeth); tendril absent (vs sometimes present).

Cook Islands Distribution

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

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

Pyrostegia venusta (Ker-Gawler)
SYNONYMS: Pyrostegia ignea; Bignonia ignea; Bignonia venusta

TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); MAGNOLIOPSIDA (=Dicotyledones); ASTERIDAE; Scrophulariales; BIGNONIACEAE

IDENTIFICATION: Vine. LEAVES opposite, compound, with leaflets 2-3, or 2 plus tendril; stalk to 5cm; LEAFLETS wide-ovate to 10x7cm, papery, base rounded, tip drawnout. FLOWERS dense clusters, orange; slender tube, to 6cm; lobes 5 (incl. 2 fused), oblong, 2cm, rolled back. FRUIT narrow cylinder to 30cm, seeds winged (not seen).

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: fieldspecimen+photo, Sue Carruthers garden Muri, on balcony, 1/2003, ID Sue.

References:
p.764 Neal - In Gardens of Hawaii
p.931 Hortus 3rd
p.958 Royal Hort. Soc. Index of Garden Plants
p.188 Tropica
p.5/142 A.C.Smith - Flora Vitiensis Nova

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zD02, zupD03b

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