Tabebuia bahamensis (Northr.) Britton

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Bignoniaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Tabebuia bahamensis (Northr.) Britton

  • Description

    Species Description - A shrub or small tree up to 10 m. high, the young twigs lepidote. Leaves 3-5-foliolate, long-petioled; leaflets oblong to elliptic, stalked, 2-7 cm. long, entire, rounded or refuse at the apex, mostly obtuse at the base, densely white-lepidote beneath, sparingly lepidote or elepidote above; panicles several flowered; pedicels rather stout, brown-lepidote, 12 mm. long or less; calyx narrowly campanulate, brown-lepidote, irregularly 2-lipped, 1-1.5 cm. long; corolla pink, 4-6 cm. long, its lobes rounded, slightly undulate; capsule 8-12 cm. long, about 7 mm. thick.

  • Discussion

    Scrub-lands, pine-lands and coppices, Great Bahama, Abaco, South Bimini and Andros to Crooked Island, North Caicos and Inagua : Cuba. Beet-bush. Gunwood. Above-all,. White Cedar. Referred by Grisebach and by Dolley to Tecoma Leucoxylon Mart. Catesby, 1 : pi. 37.

  • Distribution

    Great Bahama, Abaco, South Bimini and Andros to Crooked Island, North Caicos and Inagua : Cuba.

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