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.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,520 meters (0 to 4,987 feet).Mean = -95.000 meters (-311.680 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,259.590 based on 6 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.
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:
elliptica
- (DC.) Sandwith
- Botanical name: - Tabebuia elliptica (DC.) Sandwith
- Specific epithet:
elliptica
- (DC.) Sandwith
- 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 elliptica DC.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Tabebuia
There are approximately 283 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 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 · T. fuscata
Bibliography
- Tao Deding & Yin Wenqing. 1990. Bignoniaceae. In: Wang Wentsai, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 69: 1-62.
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Notes
Contributors
- 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 26, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 24, 2008.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 26, 2008:
- Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3433341
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 910665
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:110906-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 248675-2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 992428
