Tecoma
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Bignoniaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Shrubs or trees, with opposite, pinnate or rarely simple leaves, and large flowers racemose or panicled at the ends of the branches. Calyx tubular campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla funnelform-campanulate, the limb slightly 2-lipped, 5-lobed, the lobes nearly equal. Stamens 4, didynamous. Ovary sessile or nearly sessile; ovules mostly in one series on the placentae. Capsule linear, loculicidally dehiscent, many-seeded, the seeds winged. [From the Aztec name Tecomaxochitl.] About 10 species, natives of tropical and warmtemperate America, the following typical.