Galphimia gracilis Bartling.
Synonym:
Galphimia glauca Merr.
MALPIGHIACEAE
Local Names
: Rain of Gold,
Spray of Gold, Slender Goldshower.
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Flowering Period : Throughout the Year.
Distribution : Native of tropical America
Uses: Ornamental.
Exotic : Yes.
Shrubs;
young parts appressed-reddish hairy, glabrescent with age. Leaves alternate,
elliptic-oblong, acute at base, obtuse to rounded at apex with an acute tip.
Flowers in terminal racemes, inflorescences overtopped by 2 lateral branches.
Calyx lobes ovate, rounded or subacute at apex, sometimes recurved. Petals
unequal, clawed, yellow; limbs 3-angled, entire. Fruits globose, brown.
