• Scientific Name: Pyrostegia venusta (Ker Gawl.) Miers
• Ref: Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 3:188. 1863
• Synonyms:
  • Bignonia ignea Vell.
  • B. tecomiflora Rusby
  • B. tubulosa Klotzsch
  • B. venusta Ker Gawl.
  • Jacaranda echinata Spreng.
  • Pyrostegia amabilis Miers
  • P. ignea (Vell.) C.Presl
  • P. ornata Miers
  • P. pallida Miers
  • P. parvifolia Miers
  • P. puberula Miers
  • P. reticulata Miers
  • P. tecomiflora (Rusby) K.Schum. ex Urb.
  • P. tubulosa (Klotzsch) Bureau & K.Schum.
  • P. venusta var. typica Sprague
  • P. venusta var. villosa Hassl.
  • Tecoma venusta (Ker Gawl.) Lem.
  • Tynanthus igneus (Vell.) Barb.Rodr.
• English Common Name: flamevine, orange trumpetvine
• Chinese Common Name: 炮仗花 pàozhang∙huā, 黄鳝藤 huángshàn∙téng
• Japanese Common Name: カエンカズラ [火焔葛] kaenkazura
• Family: Bignoniaceae
• Genus: Pyrostegia
• Distribution: native of Brazil, cultivated elsewhere.
• Photo: South China Botanical Garden, Guangdong

Glabrous. Lateral leaflets ovate to ovate-oblong, 40-65 x 33-45 mm, entire, acuminate, base subcordate; terminal leaflet modified into a long coiled, 3-clawed tendril. Bracts 1-1.5 mm long. Flowers orange. Calyx campanulate, c. 5 mm long, truncate with a 5-toothed rim; teeth c. 0.8 mm long, subulate, pubescent. Corolla tube slender, c. 45 mm long, lobes 5,broad linear, pubescent. Filaments of longer stamens 40 mm long. Style c. 50 mm long, stigma lobes oblong. Capsule not seen. (Flora of Pakistan)