Botanical name: Mussaenda glabrata    Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Mussaenda frondosa var. glabrata

Long-Sepal Mussaenda is a plant which might be mistaken for the more common Dhobi Tree. However, it can be distinguished by its prominently long, thread-like sepals and orange flowers with a long tube. Flowers are borne in open cymes, with long bracts. Flower-tube is silky, petals broad, with a short sharp point at the tip. Branches are hairless or with scattered spreading hairs, leaves all stalked, broadly or narrowly elliptic, hairless or sparingly hairy beneath or on both surfaces, stipules sometimes very narrow. Long-Sepal Mussaenda is native to a restricted region of Western Ghats.

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