Tabebuia

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Bignoniaceae

• Scientific Name

  Tabebuia

• Description

  Description - Trees or shrubs, with opposite petioled, digitately 1-7-foliolate or simple leaves, the large showy flowers in terminal cymes or panicles. Calyx tubular, variously toothed or cleft. Corolla funnel form or funnelform-campanulate, the limb spreading, slightly 2-lipped or nearly regular, the 5 lobes rounded. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; filaments slender, curved; anthers oblong or linear, glabrous. Ovary sessile; ovules many, in 2-several series. Capsule linear or linear-oblong, nearly terete, loculicidally dehiscent, its valves membranous or coriaceous, convex. Seeds numerous, winged. [Brazilian name.] Seventy-five species or more, natives of tropical America. Type species: Bignonia Tabebuya Veil.