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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Russelia sarmentosa - Jacq.
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Common Name
Broadleaf Firecracker Plant
Habit
Shrub
Synonym
Russelia Sarmentosa Jacq.
Habitat
Ornamental
Color Of Flower
Red
Key Characters
Leaves broadly ovate; peduncles more than 3 or more flowered.
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Gamopetalae
 
Series :
Bicarpellatae
 
Order :
Personales
Plant Description

Garden shrub; branched, angular, drooping; leaves opposite or whorled, coriaceous, broadly ovate, serrate, apex acuminate; flowers red, bracteate, shortly peduncled in many flowered, dichotomous cymes; calyx 5-lobed, corolla subequally bilipped, tube broadly cylindrical, lobes-5, spreading; stamens-4, didynamous, included; carpels-2, syncarpous; ovary 2-4 celled, ovules many, style filiform, stigma capitate; capsules subglobse, glabrous, septicidally dehiscent; seeds ovoid, many, minute, smooth, black.

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