Adenocalymma inundatum

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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]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Mart. ex DC. Publication : Prodr. (DC.) 9: 201 1845 [1 Jan 1845]An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Adenocalymma

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 81 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. ackermannii · A. alboviolaceum · A. alliaceum · A. anomalum · A. apparicianum · A. apurense · A. arthropetiolatum · A. auristellae · A. bilabiatum · A. bracteatum · A. bracteolatum · A. bullatum · A. calderonii · A. calveronii · A. cearense · A. ciliolatum · A. cocleense · A. comosum · A. coriaceum · A. croceum · A. cymbalum · A. densiflora · A. divaricatum · A. dusenii · A. elegans · A. fissum · A. flavum · A. floribundum · A. foveolatum · A. friesianum · A. gracielzae · A. grandifolium · A. grenadense · A. guillemini · A. hatschbachii · A. helicocalyx · A. heterophyllum · A. hintonii · A. hirtum · A. hosmeca · A. hypostictum · A. impressum · A. inundatum · A. laevigatum · A. latifolia · A. longeracemosum · A. macrocarpum · A. macrophyllum · A. magnificum · A. magnoalatum · A. marginatum · A. nervosum · A. nitidum · A. obovatum · A. ocositense · A. pachypus · A. paniculatum · A. paulistarum · A. perezii · A. pleiadenium · A. prancei · A. punctifolium · A. purpurascens · A. reticulatum · A. sagotii · A. salmoneum · A. salzmanni · A. saulense · A. scabriusculum · A. scansile · A. splendens · A. standleyanum · A. subincanum · A. subsessilifolium · A. symmetrica · A. tephrinocalyx · A. ternatum · A. trifoliatum · A. ubatubensis · A. uleanum · A. verrucosum

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Further Reading

• Contributions to the flora of Venezuela / Julian A. Steyermark and collaborators. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. ENG url p. 1088.
• Flora costaricensis / William Burger, editor. Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c2000. ENG url p. 100, p. 161, p. 170, p. 82, p. 94.
• Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1961] ENG url p. 33.
• Tao Deding & Yin Wenqing. 1990. Bignoniaceae. In: Wang Wentsai, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 69: 1-62.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 01, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 01, 2007:

• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3432751
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15232466
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:108127-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 108127-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1055892

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]

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