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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Tabebuia
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.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.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- 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:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Superorder:
Lamianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Scrophulariales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Bignoniaceae
()
- Durande, 1782, Nom. Cons.
- Trumpet-Creeper Family
- Genus:
Tabebuia
()
- Gomes ex A.P. de Candolle, 1838
- Specific epithet:
anafensis
- Urb.
- Botanical name: - Tabebuia anafensis Urb.
- Specific epithet:
anafensis
- Urb.
- Genus:
Tabebuia
(
- Family:
Bignoniaceae
(
- Order:
Scrophulariales
(
- Superorder:
Lamianae
(
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Tabebuia anafensis Urb., 1925
- Tabebuia anafensis Urban
Similar Species
Members of the genus Tabebuia
There are approximately 294 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
T. 'Apricot' (Dwarf Trumpet Tree) · T. acrophylla (Top-Leaf Trumpet Tree) · T. actinophylla · T. acunana (Tabebuia) · T. adenophylla · T. aesculifolia (Tabebuia) · T. affinis (Tabebuia) · T. alba (Tabebuia) · T. albo-rosea · T. anafensis (Tabebuia) · T. anafensis munizii · T. anafensis subsp. munizii · 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. atrovirens · T. aurea (Caribbean Trumpet Tree) · T. avellanedae · T. avellanedae var. paulensis · T. bahamensis (White Dwarf Tabebuia) · T. barbata (Tabebuia) · T. berteroi (Hispaniolan Rosy Trumpet Tree) · T. beyeri (Tabebuia) · T. bibracteolata (Tabebuia) · T. bilbergii · T. billbergii (Trumpet Tree) · T. billbergii subsp. ampla · T. blakeana (Tabebuia) · T. botelhensis (Tabebuia) · T. brevipes · T. brigandina (Tabebuia) · T. brooksiana (Tabebuia) · T. buchii (Tabebuia) · T. bullata (Tabebuia) · T. bureauvii · T. bureavii (Tabebuia) · T. calcicola (Tabebuia) · T. calderoni · T. calderonii (Tabebuia) · T. caleticana (Tabebuia) · T. camaguayensis (Tabebuia) · T. camagueyensis · T. candicans (Tabebuia) · T. capitata (Tabebuia) · T. capotei (Tabebuia) · T. cassinoides (Caixeta) · T. catarinensis (Tabebuia) · T. chapadensis (Tabebuia) · T. chrysantha (Golden Goddess) · T. chrysantha subsp. meridionalis · T. chrysantha subsp. pluvicola · T. chrysea (Roble Amarillo) · T. chrysotrica · T. chrysotricha (Dwarf Golden Tabebuia) · T. chrysotricha var. obtusata · T. citrifolia (Tabebuia) · T. clementis (Tabebuia) · T. coartata (Tabebuia) · T. conferta (Tabebuia) · T. coralibe (Tabebuia) · T. cordata · T. cowellii (Tabebuia) · T. crassifolia (Tabebuia) · T. crispiflora · T. cristata · T. cuneifolia (Tabebuia) · T. curtissii (Tabebuia) · T. del-riscoi · T. densifolia (Tabebuia) · T. dentata · T. dictyophylla · T. diluvialis · T. dolichopoda · T. domingensis · T. dominguensis · T. dominicensis · T. donnell-smithii (Gold Tree) · T. donnell-smittii · T. dracocephaloides · T. dubia · T. dugandii · T. dura · T. ecuadorensis · T. ekmanii · T. elegans · T. elliptica (Tabebuia) · T. elongata · T. erosa · T. excisa · T. eximia · T. fallax · T. flavescens · T. floccosa · T. fluviatilis · T. furfuracea
Bibliography
- Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1997. A listing of threatened Cuban trees prepared for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project.
- Borhidi, A. 1992. Letter to Hugh Synge concerning conservation status of Cuban plants. Includes annotations to 27 Aug 1991 TPU printout for Cuba.
- Borhidi, A. and Muñiz, O. 1983. Catálogo de Plantas Cubanas Amenazadas o Extinguidas. Acad. Ciencias de Cuba, La Habana.
- Borhidi, A. and Muñiz, O. 1983. Catálogo de Plantas Cubanas Amenazadas o Extinguidas. Acad. Ciencias de Cuba, La Habana.
- Tao Deding & Yin Wenqing. 1990. Bignoniaceae. In: Wang Wentsai, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 69: 1-62.
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Notes
Contributors
- Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 24, 2008.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3433352
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15236577
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:110842-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 110842-1
- IUCN ID: 31691
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 992420
