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Schlegelia parviflora

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.[1]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,524 meters (0 to 8,281 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

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Notes

Publishing author : Monach. Publication : Phytologia 3: 103 1949 Basionym author: (Oerst.)

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Schlegelia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 30 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

S. albiflora · S. axillaris · S. brachyantha (Higuerito De Sierra) · S. brachyantha portoricensis · S. brachyantha var. portoricensis · S. cariensis · S. cauliflora · S. cornuta · S. costaricensis · S. darienensis · S. dressleri · S. fastigiata · S. fuscata · S. gentlei · S. lawrancei · S. lilacina · S. macrophylla · S. monachinoi · S. nicaraguensis · S. paraensis · S. parasitica · S. parviflora · S. portoricensis · S. ramizii · S. roseiflora · S. scandens · S. spruceana · S. sulfurea · S. violacea · S. wilsoni

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Further Reading

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

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    Data Sources

    Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 05, 2007:

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    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. Mean = 581.220 meters (1,906.890 feet), Standard Deviation = 710.470 based on 272 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
    Last Revised: 2009-07-30