Haryana Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Haryana (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre,Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Verbenaceae | Genus: Clerodendrum | Species: Clerodendrum indicum (Linn.) Kuntze( बरंग ) |
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| Synonym | Clerodendrum verticillatum D.Don, Siphonanthus indicus Linn. | Flower Color | White |
| Common Name | Turk’s Turban, Sky rocket. | Flower Type | Cyme |
| English / Trade Name | Turk’s Turban, Sky rocket. | Flowering Period | July-Sept |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Barange | Fruiting Period | Oct-Dec |
| Altitude | Up to 1000 m. | Fruit Type | Drupe |
| Habit | Shrub | Fruit Details | Drupes dark blue, 2-4 lobed. |
| Habitat | Roadsides on mountain slopes. | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand. | Bark Details | Green, smooth. |
| Distribution in Haryana | Ambala, Morni-Pinjore, Yamuna Nagar | Origin | Exotic |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Whorled (leaves in groups of 3 or more along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Oblong | ||
| Description of Species | Shrubs 1-2 m tall. Branchlets purple to purplish, channeled, smooth. Leaves whorled with 3-5 per node or opposite, sessile or subsessile, with nodal hairs at petiole base; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, membranous, glabrous, base attenuate, margin entire or sinuate, apex short acuminate; midvein prominent, veins 10-12 pairs. Flower in terminal leafy thyrses, cymes red, few flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, bractlets awl-shaped, calyx divided 3/4 to base, densely minute round glandular; lobes ovate-lanceolate, apex acute, corolla white, becoming cream colored; tube funnelform, curved, lobes spreading, lanceolate, elliptic, or ovate-oblong, apex obtuse, stamens long exserted. Fruit a drupes dark blue, 2-4-lobed. | Leaf Details | Leaves whorled with 3-5 per node or opposite, sessile or subsessile, with nodal hairs at petiole base; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, membranous, glabrous, base attenuate, margin entire or sinuate, apex short acuminate; midvein prominent, veins 10-12 pairs. |
