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Sometimes cultivated in our gardens, as an ornamental for its beautiful, paniculate cymes.
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Description
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A moderate to large sized, scandent, spinose shrub with lenticellate sterns. Leaves rhomboid-elliptic, 5-7.5 cm long, 3-4 cm broad, entire or slightly lobed, glabrous, glaucous, glandular beneath; petiole 2-2.5 cm long. Cymes terminal, paniculately arranged in the axils of foliaceous, petaloid bracts; bracts broadly ovate, 2-2.5 cm long, nearly as broad, mucronate, membranous. Flowers yellow. Corolla-tube curiously inflated upwards, glabrous outside. Drupe obovoid, c. 1.2 cm long.
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Distribution
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Distribution: A native of Philippine islands, introduced and naturalized in India and S.E. Asia.
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per.: April-November.
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Gmelina philippensis: Brief Summary
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Gmelina philippensis is a plant species in the family Lamiaceae (but previously placed on the Verbenaceae). No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.
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