Aeschynanthus hookeri is a species of flowering plant in the family Gesneriaceae. It is an epiphyte with leathery leaves, red flowers, and capsule fruits. The species is native to India, Bangladesh, China, Myanmar, and Nepal. It was described in 1883.
Taxonomy The species was described by Charles Baron Clarke in 1883.
Distribution Aeschynanthus hookeri is native to the wet tropical biome of India (Assam, Bangladesh, China (north-west and south Yunnan), Myanmar, and Nepal. It grows on trees in montane forests, at elevations of .
Description Aeschynanthus hookeri is an epiphytic subshrub. The stems are smooth, and around long.
The leaves are arranged oppositely. The leaves are thick and leathery, long, wide, and narrowly elliptic to oblong. The leaf margins are smooth. The leaf stems are long.
The inflorescence lacks a stem, and has four to ten flowers. The flowers have stems. The calyx is red or purple, long, and has five lobes. The lobes are ovate to broadly triangular, long, and wide. The calyx tube is wide at the mouth. The corolla is scarlet to orange-scarlet, and long. The plant flowers in July.
The fruit is a capsule around long. The seeds have three hair-like appendages.
Nomenclature In Chinese, the species is known as ().
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