''Clerodendrum'' is a

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s formerly placed in the family Verbenaceae, but now considered to belong to the Lamiaceae (mint) family. Its

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s include glorybower, bagflower, pagoda flower and bleeding-heart. It is currently classified in the

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Ajugoideae, being one of several genera transferred from Verbenaceae to Lamiaceae in the 1990s, based on phylogenetic analysis of morphological and molecular data. The

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for the genus is '' Clerodendrum infortunatum''.''Clerodendrum'' In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see ''External links'' below). It is native to

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and the Andaman Islands.Anthony J. Huxley, Mark Griffiths, and Margot Levy (editors). 1992. ''The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening.'' The Macmillan Press Limited, London; The Stockton Press, New York. The genus is native to tropical and warm

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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.David J. Mabberley. 2008. ''Mabberley's Plant-Book'' third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK. They are shrubs, lianas, and small trees, usually growing to tall, with opposite or whorled leaves. '' C. floribundum'' can grow to tall. '' Clerodendrum fistulosum'' and '' Clerodendrum myrmecophila'' have hollow stems that are inhabited by ants. '' Clerodendrum trichotomum'' is a common ornamental in warmer parts of the world. Eight other species are also grown in the tropics for their abundant and attractive flowers.George W. Staples and Derral R. Herbst "A Tropical Garden Flora" Bishop Museum Press: Honolulu (2005) One of these, '' Clerodendrum macrostegium'', suckers abundantly from the roots, often producing a thicket within a few years. The following species are cultivated in the UK: * ''C. chinense'' * ''C. splendens'' * ''C. thomsoniae'' * ''C. trichotomum'' ''Clerodendrum'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including '' Endoclita malabaricus'' and '' Endoclita sericeus.'' Both butterflies and hummingbirds are often attracted to blooming clerodendrum.

Description

The following description is based on the one by Yuan et alii (2010) and applies to only the

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circumscription of ''Clerodendrum''. ''Clerodendrum'' is a genus of small trees, shrubs, lianas, and subherbaceous perennials. Leaves decussate or whorled, never spiny as in some close relatives.

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usually terminal.

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s usually connate, often colored, usually accrescent. Corolla red to yellow, pink, or white. Corolla tube 5-lobed, the lobes usually unequal.

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s 4 (rarely 5), usually in 2 pairs of unequal length and projecting well beyond the mouth of the corolla. Ovary incompletely 4- locular. Ovules 4. Style terminal on the ovary, bifid. Fruit a drupe, usually with 4 grooves or lobes, 4-

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ed (rarely 2-seeded by abortion).

Pollination

''Clerodendrum'' and its relatives have an unusual pollination syndrome which avoids self-pollination. This mating system combines dichogamy and herkogamy. The flowers are protandrous. When the flower opens, the stamens stand erect, parallel to the central axis of the flower, while the style bends over, holding the stigma beyond the rim of the corolla. After the pollen is shed, the stamens curl up or bend over, and the style straightens out, bringing the stigma to the center of the flower. Except for '' Aegiphila'', which is heterostylous, this breeding strategy is shared by all members of the

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consisting of '' Kalaharia'', ''Clerodendrum'', '' Volkameria'', '' Aegiphila'', '' Ovieda'', '' Tetraclea'', and '' Amasonia''.

History

''Clerodendrum'' was named by

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

in '' Species Plantarum'' in 1753.''Clerodendrum'' page 637. In: Carolus Linnaeus. 1753. ''Species Plantarum'' volume 2. Laurentii Salvii. (see ''External Links'' below). The name is derived from two Greek words, ''kleros'', meaning "chance or fate" or "clergy", and ''dendron'', "a tree".Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. ''CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names'' volume I, page 559. CRC Press: Boca Raton; New York; Washington,DC;, US. London, UK. (set). It refers to the considerable variation in reports of the usefulness of ''Clerodendrum'' in medicine, and also to the fact the trees were used for religious purposes in Asia. Regional revisions of ''Clerodendrum'' have been done for local floras, but the last monograph of the entire genus was by John Isaac Briquet in 1895.John Isaac Briquet. 1895. "''Clerodendrum''" pages 174-176. In: "Verbenaceae" pages 132-182. In: ''Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' volume IV, part 3a. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig, Germany. He recognized about 90 species, defining the genus broadly to include species that others had placed in '' Rotheca'', '' Volkameria'', and '' Ovieda''. His circumscription was followed by most authors for the next 100 years, even though it was widely believed to be problematic. In 1997, phylogenetic analysis of DNA data showed that ''Clerodendrum'', as then understood, was

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. This situation was remedied in 1998 with the revival of ''Rotheca''. This taxonomic change was based on previous work and on a molecular phylogenetic study that was not published until the following year. In 2004, a study of DNA sequences showed that the monospecific Australian genus ''Huxleya'' was embedded in a clade of ''Clerodendrum'' species that had formerly been placed in '' Volkameria''. ''Huxleya'' was then sunk into synonymy with ''Clerodendrum''. The 2004 study sampled '' Aegiphila'', '' Tetraclea'', and '' Amasonia'', three

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genera of Ajugoideae that had not previously been sampled for DNA. The results of this study cast doubt, once again, upon the monophyly of ''Clerodendrum''. In 2010, a study of four chloroplast DNA intergenic spacers showed that part of ''Clerodendrum'' was closer to the New world genera than to other ''Clerodendrum'', and that one species of ''Clerodendrum'' was nested within the clade of New World genera. The authors of this study resurrected the genus ''Volkameria'' and assigned to it about 30 species that had been in ''Clerodendrum''. They also resurrected ''Ovieda'' as a monotypic genus consisting of '' Ovieda spinosa''. ''Volkameria'' and ''Ovieda'' had been erected by

in 1753. Modern cladistic analysis has largely vindicated his concepts of ''Clerodendrum'' and its relatives.

Traditional medicinal use

'' Clerodendrum glandulosum''. Coleb leaf aqueous extract is traditionally used by people of North-East India to alleviate symptoms of diabetes, obesity and hypertension. Among the Hmar and Zomi tribes in the North East India Anphui(Clerodendrum) is also being used as a dish/curry.Anphui Dish from Biaki's Kitchen- https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=699621273413089&id=440688782639674&set=a.440710989304120.111092.440688782639674

Systematics

''Clerodendrum'' is strongly supported as monophyletic in molecular phylogenetic analyses. It consists of two clades, each of which receives strong bootstrap support. One clade contains mostly African species. The other is mostly Asian. The African and Asian groups can not confidently be divided into sections without more extensive sampling of taxa in phylogenetic studies. The Madagascan species, in particular, are poorly studied. It appears that the long, narrow corolla tube evolved only once in ''Clerodendrum'', and appeared again, among its relatives, in ''Ovieda''.

Species

Formerly placed here

*'' Pseudocaryopteris foetida'' (D.Don) P.D.Cantino (as ''C. foetidum'' D.Don) *'' Rotheca incisa'' (Klotzsch) Steane & Mabb. (as ''C. incisum'' Klotzsch or ''C. macrosiphon'' Hook.f.) *'' Rotheca myricoides'' (Hochst.) Steane & Mabb. (as ''C. myricoides'' (Hochst.) Vatke or ''C. ugandense'' Prain) *'' Rotheca serrata'' (L.) Steane & Mabb. (as ''C. serratum'' (L.) Moon) *'' Volkameria aculeata'' L. (as ''C. aculeatum'' (L.) Schltdl.) *'' Volkameria glabra'' (E.Mey.) Mabb. & Y.W.Yuan (as ''C. glabrum'' E.Mey.) *'' Volkameria inermis'' L. (as ''C. inerme'' (L.) Gaertn.) *'' Volkameria ligustrina'' Jacq. (as ''C. ligustrinum'' (Jacq.) R.Br.)

Gallery

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