Large Lantern Flower is a shrub, up to 10 m tall,
growing on trees. Stem is robust, round, warty, hairless. Leaves are
arranged in pseudo-whorls, alternate, pseudowhorls 2-3 cm apart, 3-4
leaved, blade 19-25 x 3-4 cm, leathery, above dark green, below pale
green, hairless both side, leaf-stalk short, 0.2-0.4 cm long, green,
hairless, base wedge-shaped, margin entire to distantly sawtoothed, tip
sharply tapering. Flowers are borne in hanging fascicles, arising from
stem, hairless, 2-10 flowered, flower-cluster-stalk short, upto 5 mm
long, green. Flowers are up to 10 cm long, 1.5 cm in diameter,
pinkish-white, upper part pink transverse stripes, lower part
longitudinal pink stripes, fleshy, cupulate, obconical, flower-stalkar
bracts brown, 2 mm, sub- triangular, tip cute, hairless. Sepal-cup is 5
lobed, 0.6 cm long, greenish-pink, hairless, lobes ovate, tip pointed.
Flower tube is 5 lobed, 7 cm long, lobes coiled downwards when matured,
green, base tubuler, pinkish-white, hairless. Stamens are 10, closely
associated, surrounds the style, 6 cm long, filament upto 5 mm, white,
fleshy, incurved, hairless inside, anther up to 1.3 cm long, white,
dark brown when matured. Large Lantern Flower is native to NE India,
Bhurtan, Bangladesh, Myanmar. Flowering: October-December.
Identification credit: Momang Taram
Photographed in Upper Subansiri distr., Arunachal Pradesh.
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