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Java glorybower (Clerodendrum speciosissimum)

Dlium Java glorybower (Clerodendrum speciosissimum)

Java glorybower (Clerodendrum speciosissimum) is a species of plant in the Lamiaceae, shrub with erect stems, up to 4 meters high, stems cylindrical with linear depressions, top green with white spots, underside brownish.

C. speciosissimum with the leaves have long stalks, spread and are green. Strands are elliptical or circular or elongated, large, leathery, about 6 major veins with many pinnate minor veins, serrated margins, dark green upper side and pale green underside.



Inflorescences in panicles at the ends of the stems with erect peduncles, up to 30 cm long, branched, spreading and red. Flowers are red for the whole and shiny. Cultivated as an ornamental plant mainly because of the bright red flowers.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Ajugoideae
Genus: Clerodendrum
Species: Clerodendrum speciosissimum Jacob-Makoy in Nursery Cat. (L.Jacob-Makoy & Co.) 1836: 19 (1836)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Clerodendrum blumeanum Schauer in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 11: 669 (1847)
Clerodendrum buchananii var. fallax (Lindl.) Bakh. in Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 3: 92 (1921)
Clerodendrum colebrookeanum var. forbesii King & Gamble in Mat. Fl. Malay. Penins.: 1048 (1907)
Clerodendrum fallax Lindl. in Edwards's Bot. Reg. 30: t. 19 (1844)
Clerodendrum greyi Baker in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 308 (1900)
Clerodendrum horsfieldii Miq. in Fl. Ned. Ind. 2: 880 (1858)
Clerodendrum papuanum Scheff. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 1: 41 (1876)
Clerodendrum pulchrum Fawc. in H.O.Forbes, Naturalist's Wanderings E. Archipel.: 514 (1885)
Clerodendrum speciosissimum f. album Moldenke in Phytologia 4: 51 (1952)
Clerodendrum speciosum Teijsm. & Binn. ex Wigman in Teysmannia 23: 285 (1912)

PUBLICATIONS

Aung, Y.L., Aung, M.H., Tan, Y. & Jin, X. (2025). An updated checklist of vascular plants of Myanmar. PhytoKeys 261: 135-364.

Bramley, G.L.C. & al. (eds.) in Ridley, H.N. (2022). Flora of the Malay Peninsula, ser. II, 9: 1-301. Authority of teh Government of the Straits Settlements.

Bramley, G.L.C. (2019). Flora Malesiana 23: 1-444. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta.

Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

Mabberley, D.J. & De Kok, R.P.J. (2004). Labiatae. Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances 25: 20-141. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118.

Sykes, W.R. (1970). Contributions to the flora of Niue. Bulletin, New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 200: 1-321.

Sykes, W.R. (2016). Flora of the Cook Islands: 1-973. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii.

Wearn, J.A. & Mabberley, D.J. (2011). Clerodendrum (Lamiaceae) in Borneo. Systematic Botany 36: 1050-1061.

VERNACULAR NAME

English: Java glorybower, Java glory, Java pagoda
Indonesian: Pagoda Jawa, Bunga Merah
Javanese: Punjung Kamulyan

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