Common name
English: Cardinal's Guard
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2625)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2528)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2137)
Order: Scrophulariales (94)
Family: Acanthaceae (25)(family description)
Genus: Pachystachys (1)
Epithet: coccinea Nees (7)
Synonyms: Dianthera coccinea Salisb., Jacobinia coccinea (Aubl.) Hiern, Justicia coccinea Aubl., Thyrsacanthus coccineus (Aubl.) T.Anderson
coccinea => scarlet
Characteristics
Climate: tropical
Habit: shrub
Flower colour: red