Red-Leaved Mussaenda
Mussaenda erythrophylla
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Red-Leaved Mussaenda
Identify Red-Leaved Mussaenda by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub habit.
- Confirm leaf surface: Pubescent (softly hairy).
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa, Assam and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Rubiaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Red-Leaved Mussaenda.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Mussaenda erythrophylla
- Genus
- Mussaenda
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Cultivated
- Habitat type
- Cultivated
- Native to
- Tropical West Africa
- Distribution
- Cultivated throughout the World
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa, Assam, Karnataka, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Pubescent (softly hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Red-Leaved Mussaenda itself; the rest are typical of the Rubiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Characters marked “recorded” are for Red-Leaved Mussaenda itself; the rest are typical of the Rubiaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Malayalam
- മുസ്സാണ്ട എറിത്രോഫില്ല
About Red-Leaved Mussaenda
A member of the Rubiaceae family, Red-leaved Mussaenda (Mussaenda erythrophylla) is a shrub. In India it has been recorded in Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa and 14 other states. It is cultivated. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Rubiaceae
Coffee/Madder family
Red-Leaved Mussaenda belongs to the Rubiaceae family.
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