Botanical name: Mussaenda glabra    Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Mussaenda frondosa var. glabra, Mussaenda penangensis

Hairless Mussaenda is a hairless climbing shrub, which can grow up to 5 m tall. The yellow or orange flowers have tube 2.5 cm long, hairless, petals much shorter than the tube, pointed. The white enlarged sepal is up to 12 cm long. Sepals are needle-like or lanceshaped, varying from being minute to longer than the ovary. Sepals fall off early after flowering. The branches are almost smooth. Leaves are elliptical, oblong or elliptical-lance-shaped, 5-14 cm x 1.5-5.5 cm and usually hairless except the veins. Fruit is ovoid-ellipsoid and up to 1.2 cm long. Hairless Mussaenda is found from Nepal to East Himalaya, NE India, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, at altitudes of 300-1700 m.

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