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Allamanda cathartica L.

Synonyms                   : Allamanda aubletii Pohl., Allamanda salicifolia Hort.

Family                        : Apocynaceae

Local Names              : Golden trumpet, Common allamanda

Flowering and fruiting period: Throughout the year

Distribution: world wide

Habitat: grown as ornamental

IUCN status: Data deficient

Endemic: No

Uses: Ornamental, Hedge plant

Key Characters: Allamanda cathartica is a Straggling shrub with whorled leaves. Flowers in terminal or axillary short-peduncled cymes. Calyx obovate-acute. Corolla yellow, funnel-shaped; throat densely villous; lobes 5, orbicular. Stamens 5, included in the basal constricted part of corolla tube; anthers subsessile, sagittate, mucronate. Ovary bilocular; stigma ovoid with a basal ring like appendage.