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Family: Verbenaceae	Genus: Clerodendrum	Species: Clerodendrum indicum (Linn.) Kuntze( बरंग )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

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.

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