Jacaranda ovalifolia

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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]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : R.Br. Publication : Bot. Mag. t. 2327

Similar Species

Members of the genus Jacaranda

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 146 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

J. abbottii · J. acutifolia · J. alagoensis · J. alba · J. amazonensis · J. arborea · J. arrabidae · J. arvensis · J. atrolilacina · J. atropurpurea · J. bahamensis · J. bahiensis · J. bracteata · J. brasiliana · J. bullata · J. bullosa · J. caerulea · J. campinae · J. carajasensis · J. caroba · J. caroba var. oxyphylla · J. caroliniana · J. caucana · J. caucana glabrata · J. caucana sandwithiana · J. caucana subsp. calycina · J. caucana subsp. glabrata · J. caucana subsp. sandwithiana · J. cauliflora · J. chapadensis · J. chelonia · J. clausseniana · J. coerulea · J. copaia · J. copaia spectabilis · J. copaia subsp. spectabilis · J. copaia var. paraensis · J. copaia var. spectabilis · J. corcovadensis · J. cowellii · J. crassifolia · J. crystallana · J. cuiralis · J. curialis · J. cuspidifolia · J. cuspidifolia var. calycina · J. decurrens (Ground Jacaranda) · J. decurrens subsp. symmetrifoliolata · J. decurrens symmetrifoliolata · J. decurrens var. glabrata · J. densicoma · J. digitaliflora · J. digitaliflora var. albiflora · J. duckei · J. echinata · J. egleri · J. ekmanii · J. elegans · J. elliptica · J. endotricha · J. filicifolia · J. filicifolia var. puberula · J. glabra · J. gloxiniaeflora · J. gloxiniiflora · J. goiasensis · J. gomesiana · J. grandifoliolata · J. gualanday · J. hebephora · J. hesperia · J. heterophylla · J. heteroptila · J. hirsuta · J. intermedia · J. intricata · J. irwinii · J. jasminoides (Purple-Flowered Jacaranda) · J. lancifolia · J. lasiogyne · J. lilacina · J. longiflora · J. macrantha · J. macrocarpa · J. mendoncaei · J. micrantha · J. microcalyx · J. mimosifolia (Jacaranda Jacaranda Acutifolia) · J. montana · J. morii · J. mutabilis · J. mutabilis f. integra · J. mutabilis f. subcoaetanea · J. mutabilis var. angustiflora · J. mutabilis var. genuina · J. mutabilis var. parvifolia · J. nitida · J. obovata · J. obtusifolia · J. obtusifolia rhombifolia

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Further Reading

• Tao Deding & Yin Wenqing. 1990. Bignoniaceae. In: Wang Wentsai, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 69: 1-62.

Notes

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5893637
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15234969
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:109835-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 109835-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 746943

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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