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Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Verbenaceae or Lamiaceae
Common name: Bon jui, Bhant(Beng.); Garden quinine(Eng.).
Life cycle:
Native Range: The genus is native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the world, with most of the species occurring in tropical Africa and southern Asia, but with a few in the tropical Americas and northern Australasia, and a few extending north into the temperate zone in eastern Asia. Clerodendrum inerme is a much branched, straggling shrub, 1-2 m tall. Terminal branches very often twining slender, twigy, dark green and form dense bush on the river banks and river slopes. Leaves ovate to elliptical, 5-10 cm long, acute to acuminate tip, green, smooth, slightly shiny upper surface, margins entire, leaves opposite, simple. |
