Jacaranda Juss.
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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 - Trees, with opposite, mostly bipinnate leaves, and showy panicled blue or violet flowers. Calyx campanulate or tubular-campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla obliquely funnelform, the tube cylindric below, expanded above, the limb somewhat 2-lipped, with 5 spreading rounded lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; anthers glabrous; staminodium about as long as the stamens, clavate, usually villous. Ovary 2-celled, sessile; ovules borne in 1 or 2 series. Capsule oblong to suborbicular, compressed, loculicidally dehiscent, its flat valves coriaceous or ligneous. Seeds flat, winged. [Brazilian name.] About 20 species, natives of tropical America, the following typical.