Brazilian red-cloak
Megaskepasma erythrochlamys Lindau
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 2.0 m
Acanthaceae
Formerly Perenideboles ciliatum
When it flowers
Flowers June to April in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Venezuela, SurinameKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- White, redRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 10 °C (USDA zone 12a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Spanish
- Pavoncillo rojo sudamericano, Capa roja brasileña
- Chinese
- 赤苞花
- German
- Fackelbusch
- Russian
- Мегаскепасма красномантиевая
- Thai
- แดงพันธุ์ทิพย์
- Chinese (China)
- 赤苞花
- Estonian
- tõrvikpõõsas
- Portuguese
- Justicia-vermelha, Camarão-gigante, Capota-vermelha
- French
- Justicia, Manteau rouge
- Finnish
- hurmelatva
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Megaskepasma erythrochlamys (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.