Jacaranda cuspidifolia

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• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

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 Jacaranda

Deciduous trees . Leaves 2-pinnate, with many leaflets . Flowers in terminal or axillary panicles, showy, blue to violet. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla campanulate , 2-lipped, 5-lobed; lobes subequal , spreading , obtuse . Stamens 4; staminode present. Capsule suborbicular , compressed , dehiscing by 2 woody valves . Seeds winged .

50 species. Native to S. & C. America and West Indies.[2]

Physical Description

Biology

Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Jacaranda cuspidifolia Mart. ex Dc.

Notes

Publishing author : Kuntze Publication : Revis. Gen. Pl. 3[3]: 246 1898 [28 Sep 1898]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Jacaranda

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

J. decurrens (Ground Jacaranda) · J. jasminoides (Maroon Jacaranda) · J. mimosifolia (Bignonia) · J. paucifoliata (Dwarf Jacaranda) · J. semiserrata (Caroba)

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Further Reading

• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 160.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 788.
• Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd series: Botany 4 1894-1896 London. url p. 271, p. 529.
• Tao Deding & Yin Wenqing. 1990. Bignoniaceae. In: Wang Wentsai, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 69: 1-62.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 04, 2007:

• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3433128
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15234907
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:109796-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 109796-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 992350

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. "Jacaranda". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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