Monographs Details:
Authority:
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Family:
Bignoniaceae
Bignoniaceae
Description:
Genus Description - Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, simple or palmately compound, with (1—)3—7 leaflets. Flowers in terminal panicles or racemes; calyx cup-shaped, bell-shaped, or tubular, truncate, 2-5-lobed at apex, corolla of various colors, zygomorphic, salverform to funnelshaped; stamens 4, didynamous; ovary 2-locular, oblong, the locule with many ovules. Fruit a nearly cylindrical capsule, smooth or slightly warty, the valves perpendicular to the partitioning wall; seeds numerous, light, 2-winged or rounded without wings.
Distribution and Ecology - A neotropical genus with ca. 100 species.
Genus Description - Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, simple or palmately compound, with (1—)3—7 leaflets. Flowers in terminal panicles or racemes; calyx cup-shaped, bell-shaped, or tubular, truncate, 2-5-lobed at apex, corolla of various colors, zygomorphic, salverform to funnelshaped; stamens 4, didynamous; ovary 2-locular, oblong, the locule with many ovules. Fruit a nearly cylindrical capsule, smooth or slightly warty, the valves perpendicular to the partitioning wall; seeds numerous, light, 2-winged or rounded without wings.
Distribution and Ecology - A neotropical genus with ca. 100 species.