7732.000 Tabebuia Gomes ex DC. - Trumpet trees

Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z. (1976) Hortus Third. A concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., New York

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, digitate with 3-9 leaflets. Indumentum of lepidote scales. Inflorescence dichotomously branched. Calyx spathaceous, sometimes irregularly 2- to 3-lipped. Corolla tubular-infundibuliform or tubular-campanulate, showy, white to red with a yellow throat (never wholly yellow in our species), slightly 2-lipped. Stamens 4. Fruit a lepidote linear-cylindric capsule. Seeds winged.

Derivation of name: from a Brazilian name.

Worldwide: c. 74 species in tropical America.

Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa.

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Species	Content
aurea (Silva Manso) Benth. & Hook.f. ex S. Moore	Image
rosea (Bertol.) DC.

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Tabebuia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Tabebuia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Tabebuia
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Tabebuia
JSTOR Plant Science: Tabebuia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Tabebuia
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Tropicos: Tabebuia
Wikipedia: Tabebuia