Fernandoa lutea

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Overview

Endangered

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Bignoniaceae

Trees , shrubs , or vines , climbers rarely herbs. Leaves opposite, alternate, or whorled , simple or pinnately compound , rarely palmately compound , without stipules, climbers usually with tendrils modified sometimes into hooks or suckers . Inflorescences cymose , paniculate , or racemose, terminal or axillary , rarely flowers borne on old stems; bracts and bractlets present, sometimes deciduous. Flowers bisexual , zygomorphic, usually large. Calyx campanulate or tubular , truncate , 2-5-dentate, or glandular subulate-dentate. Corolla campanulate or funnelform , usually bilabiate; lobes 5, imbricate or valvate . Fertile stamens 4 (didynamous ) and staminode 1, or 2 and staminodes 3, rarely all 5 stamens fertile. Disc fleshy . Ovary superior, 2-locular, rarely 1- or 4-locular; placentation axile or parietal ; ovules numerous . Style filiform ; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally or septicidally, rarely fruit fleshy and indehiscent. Seeds numerous, usually winged or with tufts of hairs at both ends; endosperm absent.

About 116-120 genera and 650-750 species: mostly in tropical and subtropical regions; 12 genera and 35 species (21 endemic) in China.

Plants of the Bignoniaceae usually produce large flowers, and many species are widely cultivated in China as ornamentals . These include Arrabidaea magnifica Sprague ex Steenis, Campsis radicans (Linnaeus) Seemann, Catalpa speciosa (Warder ex Barney) Engelmann, Clytostoma callistegioides (Chamisso) Bureau & Schumann, Crescentia alata Kunth, C. cujete Linnaeus, Jacaranda cuspidifolia Martius, J. mimosifolia D. Don, Kigelia africana (Lamarck) Bentham, Macfadyena unguis-cati (Linnaeus) A. H. Gentry, Pandorea jasminoides (Linnaeus) Schumann, Parmetiera cerifera Seemann, Podranea ricasoliana (Tanfani) Sprague, Pyrostegia venusta (Ker-Gawler) Miers, Spathodea campanulata Beauvois, Stenolobium stans (Linnaeus) Seemann, Tabebuia chrysantha (Jacquin) G. Nicholson, T. rosea (Bertoloni) de Candolle, and Tecomaria capensis (Thunberg) Spach.[1]

Genus Fernandoa

Trees . Leaves 1-pinnately compound ; leaflets 2-5(or 6) pairs. Inflorescences cymose , terminal or axillary , pubescent . Calyx tubular or campanulate , usually 2-5-lobed, subzygomorphic or regular, persistent . Corolla funnelform or campanulate; lobes 5, subrounded, sinuate or crenate . Stamens 4, didynamous ; anthers 2-celled, slightly divergent, included ; staminodes small. Disc annular , occasionally dentate . Ovary terete , glabrous or pubescent, 2-locular; ovules numerous , in 2 rows . Capsule dehiscing loculicidally, 4-angular; valves thin leathery; septum thick, smooth , vertical with fruiting valve . Seeds in 2 rows, numerous, nearly square , narrowly membranous winged at both ends.

About 14 species: four in tropical Africa, three in Madagascar, six in SE Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam) ; one species in China.[2]

Taxonomy

Notes

Basionym : Bignoniaceae Fernandoa magnifica var. lutea

Basionym author: (Verdc.)

Basionym: Bignoniaceae Fernandoa magnifica var. lutea

Basionym author: (Verdc.)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Fernandoa

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Further Reading

• Clarke, G.P. and Lovett, J. 1996. Data collection forms for tree species of Tanzania.
• East African Discussion Group. 1996. Comments on East African threatened trees.
• Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.
• Tao Deding & Yin Wenqing. 1990. Bignoniaceae. In: Wang Wentsai, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 69: 1-62.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 26, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P. 1998. Fernandoa lutea. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 26, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7145322
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:979021-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 979021-1
• IUCN ID: 209662
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1022818

Footnotes

1. Zhi-Yun Zhang & Thawatchai Santisuk "Bignoniaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 213. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Fernandoa". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 217. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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