478 — Number of the plant

at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7

Classification

► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants

► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons

► Subclass Asteridae

► Order Scrophulariales

► Family Acanthaceae - Acanthus family

► Family (Alt) Thunbergiaceae

► Subfamily Thunbergioideae

► Genus Thunbergia Retz. - Thunbergia

Synonyms

Common names

Black-eyed Susan (English)

Black-eyed-Susan-vine (English)

Suzanne aux yeux noirs (French)

Thunbergie (French)

 

Schwarzäugige Susanne (German)

Ojitos negros (Spanish)

Description

Small yellow orange to orange salverform flowers with a limb composed of five broad somewhat squared lobes, a dark maroon or green throat and a curved corolla tube that emerges from two enlarged inflated bracts; usually borne singly from the leaf axils. A light annual or perennial vine.