Podranea ricasoliana (Tanfani) Sprague
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Authority
Gentry, Alwyn H. 1992. Bignoniaceae--part II (Tribe Tecomeae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 25: 1-370. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bignoniaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Not seen, no date; Cultivated in Italy from seeds collected By Vicenzo Ricasoli in Goiás or Paraná, Brazil (?)
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Synonyms
Tecoma ricasoliana Tanfani, Pandorea ricasoliana (Tanfani) K.Schum.
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Description
Species Description - Vine or subscandent shrub. Leaves imparipinnately compound, usually 7-9-foliolate, the leaflets more or less ovate, obtuse to short-acuminate, serrate, truncate to cuneate or somewhat attenuate, 2.5-3.8 cm long, 1.5-2.0 cm wide, petiolulate. Inflorescence a terminal panicle. Flowers with the calyx large, cupular-campanulate, 1.5-2 cm long, strongly 5-dentate with apiculate lobes, pale lavender when fresh; corolla pale lavender or pinkish with a magenta patch at base of the two adaxial lobes, the tube white with deep magenta lines inside and some pinkish splotches near the base, campanulate above a short cylindric base, 6-8 cm long, with scattered lepidote scales on the lobes, glandular-pubescent at the level of stamen insertion inside and pubescent with kinky trichomes in the sinuses between lobes, otherwise glabrous; stamens didynamous, the thecae divaricate, 3 mm long; pistil 3.2-3.4 cm long, the ovary linear, glabrous, 5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, the ovules 6-seriate in each locule; disk pulvinate, 0.5 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide. Fruit a linear capsule, coriaceous, seed never set in Neotropics.
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Distribution
Widely cultivated in gardens; native to eastern and southern Africa.
Brazil South America| Paraná Brazil South America| Goiás Brazil South America|