Botanical designation:Mandevilla hybrida.

Cultivar denomination: ‘SUNPA 201’.

STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES BY THE INVENTOR/APPLICANT & ASSIGNEE

The Inventor/Applicant and Assignee assert that no publications nor advertisements relating to sales, offers for sale or public distribution occurred more than one year prior to the effective filing date of this application. Any information about the claimed plant would have been obtained from a direct or indirect disclosure from the Inventor/Applicant and/or Assignee. Inventor/Applicant and Assignee claim a prior art exception under 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(1) for disclosure and/or sales prior to the filing date but less than one year prior to the effective filing date.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar ofMandevillaplant, botanically known asMandevilla hybridaand hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Sunpa 201’.

The newMandevillaplant is a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of a proprietary selection ofMandevilla hybridaidentified as code number M37-mt2, not patented. The newMandevillaplant was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant from within a population of plants of the mutation parent selection in a controlled greenhouse environment in Maasland, The Netherlands in June, 2019.

Asexual reproduction of the newMandevillaplant by terminal vegetative cuttings in Maasland, The Netherlands since June, 2019 has shown that the unique features of this newMandevillaplant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Plants of the newMandevillahave not been observed under all possible combinations of environmental conditions and cultural practices. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environmental conditions such as temperature and light intensity without, however, any variance in genotype.

The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘Sunpa 201’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘Sunpa 201’ as a new and distinctMandevillaplant:1. Upright to outwardly spreading plant habit.2. Vigorous growth habit.3. Freely branching habit.4. Early and freely flowering habit.5. Long flowering period.6. Medium-sized speckled red and light purplish pink bi-colored flowers with light purplish pink-colored petal margins.

Plants of the newMandevillacan be compared to plants of the mutation parent selection. Plants of the newMandevilladiffer primarily from plants of the mutation parent selection in flower color as plants of the newMandevillahave speckled red and light purplish pink bi-colored flowers whereas plants of the mutation parent selection have light purplish pink-colored flowers.

Plants of the newMandevillacan be compared to plants of theMandevilla hybrida‘Sunpa 4411’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 31,141. In side-by-side comparisons, plants of the newMandevilladiffer from plants of ‘Sunpa 4411’ in the following characteristics:1. Plants of the newMandevillahave shorter internodes than plants of ‘Sunpa 4411’.2. Leaves of plants of the newMandevillaare smaller than leaves of plants of ‘Sunpa 4411’.3. Petals of plants of the newMandevillaare imbricate whereas petals of plants of ‘Sunpa 4411’ are not imbricate.4. Plants of the newMandevillahave speckled red and light purplish pink bi-colored flowers whereas plants of ‘Sunpa 4411’ have purplish red-colored flowers.5. Plants of the newMandevillahave shorter peduncles than plants of ‘Sunpa 4411’.

