Overview
Large tree from Mexico and Central America, with striking display of yellow tubular flowers that replace the leaves during the flowering season . The wood is used for veneering and cabinet work.
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Gold Tree, Prima Vera, Primavera, White-Mahogany
Common Names in Spanish:
Primavera
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]
Physical Description
Habit: Tree
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lamianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Lamiales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Bignoniaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- bignonias
- Family:
Bignoniaceae
(
- Order:
Lamiales
(
- Superorder:
Lamianae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Cybistax donnell-smithii (Rose) Seib. • Roseodendron donnell-smithii (Rose) F. Miranda
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Tabebuia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 67 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
T. acrophylla (Top-Leaf Trumpet Tree) · T. acunana (Tabebuia) · T. aesculifolia (Tabebuia) · T. affinis (Tabebuia) · T. alba (Tabebuia) · T. anafensis (Tabebuia) · T. angustata (Narrow Trumpet Tree) · T. anisophylla (Tabebuia) · T. apiculata (Tabebuia) · T. aquatilis (Tabebuia) · T. araliacea (Tabebuia) · T. arenicola (Tabebuia) · T. arianeae (Tabebuia) · T. arimaoensis (Tabebuia) · T. aurea (Caribbean Trumpet Tree) · T. bahamensis (White Dwarf Tabebuia) · T. barbata (Tabebuia) · T. berteroi (Hispaniolan Rosy Trumpet Tree) · T. beyeri (Tabebuia) · T. bibracteolata (Tabebuia) · T. billbergii (Trumpet Tree) · T. blakeana (Tabebuia) · T. botelhensis (Tabebuia) · T. brigandina (Tabebuia) · T. brooksiana (Tabebuia) · T. buchii (Tabebuia) · T. bullata (Tabebuia) · T. bureavii (Tabebuia) · T. calcicola (Tabebuia) · T. calderonii (Tabebuia) · T. caleticana (Tabebuia) · T. camaguayensis (Tabebuia) · T. candicans (Tabebuia) · T. capitata (Tabebuia) · T. capotei (Tabebuia) · T. cassinoides (Caixeta) · T. catarinensis (Tabebuia) · T. chapadensis (Tabebuia) · T. chrysantha (Golden Goddess) · T. chrysea (Roble Amarillo) · T. chrysotricha (Dwarf Golden Tabebuia) · T. citrifolia (Tabebuia) · T. clementis (Tabebuia) · T. coartata (Tabebuia) · T. conferta (Tabebuia) · T. coralibe (Tabebuia) · T. cowellii (Tabebuia) · T. crassifolia (Tabebuia) · T. cuneifolia (Tabebuia) · T. curtissii (Tabebuia) · T. densifolia (Tabebuia) · T. donnell-smithii (Gold Tree) · T. elliptica (Tabebuia) · T. haemantha (Blood-Red Trumpet Tree) · T. heterophylla (Pink Poui-Rosea) · T. impetiginosa (Arco Pau D) · T. impetiginosa 'Raspberry' (Ipe Roxo) · T. lapacho (Lapacho Amarillo) · T. obtusifolia (Guadeloupe Trumpet-Tree (As T Leucoxyla)) · T. rigida (Roble De Sierra) · T. riparia (White Tabebuia) · T. rosea (Apamate) · T. roseoalba (White Trumpet Tree) · T. rufescens (Black Poui) · T. schumanniana (Roble Colorado) · T. serratifolia (Yellow Poui) · T. 'Apricot' (Dwarf Trumpet Tree)
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Further Reading
- Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Washington, D.C.?]: Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1913-1923. url p. 16, p. 19.
- Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 23 1920-1926 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 1320, p. 1321, p. 243, p. 346.
- Flora of Guatemala / Paul C. Standley, Louis O. Williams, Dorothy Nash Gibson. 24 1974 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1974. url p. 218.
- Natural science. London: Macmillan & Co., [1892-1899] url p. 351.
- Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 20, p. 9.
- Trees and shrubs of Mexico / By Paul C. Standley. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1920-1926. url p. 1320, p. 1321.
- 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 November 30, 2007:
- Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2676658
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-565557
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13736323
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:248668-2
- GRIN Nomen Number: 36142
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 565557
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 248668-2
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: RODO
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 32260
Footnotes
- 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]
