Flower Bloom - Kleinhovia hospita L. 鹧鸪麻 @Changi Point Boardwalk - Changi Sailing Club (2023 1105)
Family Name: Malvaceae
Common Name: Guest Tree, Bataria Teak, Temahai, Laban, Matakara, Tan-ag, 鹧鸪麻, 克蘭树, 面頭果
Native to Indonesia, Malaysia and other parts of tropical Asia and the Pacific.
Locate: Changi Point Boardwalk - Changi Sailing Club
Kleinhovia hospita is an evergreen, bushy tree growing up to 20 m high, with a dense rounded crown and upright pink sprays of flowers and fruits.
The flowers of K. hospita are terminal, in loose panicles protruding from the crown; flowers are about 5 mm wide, coloured pale pink; pedicels are 2–10 mm long; bracteoles are lanceolate, 2–4 mm long, pubescent; gynandrophores are 4–7 mm long, pubescent; there are 5 sepals, linear lanceolate, 6–8 mm long, pink, tomentose; 5 petals, inconspicuous, the upper one being yellow; 15 stamens, monaldelphous, 8–15 mm long, staminal tube broadly campanulate, adanate to gynandrophore, 5-lobed, each lobe having 3 anthers and alternating with staminodes; the anthers are sessile and extrorse; pistil occur with a 5-celled, pilose ovary, one style and a capitate, with a 5-lobed stigma. K. hospita flowers throughout the year.
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