Tabebuia aurea (Caribbean Trumpet Tree, Caribbean Trumpet-Tree, Silver Trumpet Tree, Yellow Tabebuia)

Common Names

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Common Names in Danish:

Trompettrae

Common Names in English:

Caribbean Trumpet Tree, Caribbean Trumpet-Tree, Paraguayan Trumpet-Tree, Paraguyan Trumpet Tree, Silver Trumpet Tree, Silver Trumpet-Tree, Tree of Gold, Tree-Of-Gold, Yellow Tabebuia

Common Names in Portuguese:

Caraibeira (As T Caraiba), Caroba-Do-Campo (As T Caraiba), Craibeira (As T Caraiba), Ipê Amarelo (Brazil), Ipê-Amarelo-Do-Cerrado (As T Caraiba)

Common Names in Swedish:

Trumpetträd

Description

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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.

Physical Description

Habit: Deciduous.

Flowers: Bloom Period: January, February. • Flower Color: yellow

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 30-40' tall.

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,227 meters (0 to 4,026 feet).Mean = 91.810 meters (301.214 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,090.900 based on 64 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Biology

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Growth

Culture: Space 12-15' apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.6 • Maximum pH: 7.8

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

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

Taxonomy

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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
        Tribe: Tecomeae ()
        Genus: Tabebuia () - Gomes ex A.P. de Candolle, 1838
        Specific epithet: aurea - (Silva Manso) S.Moore
        Botanical name: - Tabebuia aurea (Silva Manso) Benth. & Hook. f. ex S. Moore

Unambiguous Synonyms

Tabebuia argentea (Bureau & K. Schum.) Britt.
Tabebuia aurea (Manso) Benth. & Hook. f. ex S. Moore
Tabebuia caraiba (Mart.) Bureau

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Place of publication : Trans Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 4:423. 1895

Name verified on 01-May-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-1997

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Tabebuia

There are approximately 293 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

Bibliography

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Gentry, A. H. 1992. Bignoniaceae - Part II (Tribe Tecomeae). In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 25(2):144–145.
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
Tao Deding & Yin Wenqing. 1990. Bignoniaceae. In: Wang Wentsai, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 69: 1-62.

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Contributors

Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 7, 2006.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.
MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 17, 2008.
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (May 01, 2008)

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium Darwin Core format
Missouri Botanical Garden
SysTax
SysTax: Herbarium Universitat Ulm
University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU: Herbarium WU
USDA PLANTS: USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2669523
Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-505423
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 292775
Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:110852-1
GRIN Nomen Number: 402100

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 505423
International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 1074515-
U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: TACA12
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 64980

Tabebuia aurea

Common Names

Description

Family Bignoniaceae

Physical Description

Size/Age/Growth

Habitat

Biology

Growth

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

Notes

Similar Species

Members of the genus Tabebuia

Bibliography

More Info

Notes

Contributors

Data Sources

Identifiers

Footnotes