Godmania aesculifolia (Kunth) Standl.
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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. Mexico: Guerrero, Humboldt & Bonpland 3902 (holotype, B-WILLD; isotype, P) (F Neg. 39408).
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Synonyms
Bignonia aesculifolia Kunth, Tecoma digitata Kunth, Tecoma fuscata DC., Tecoma aesculifolia (Kunth) DC., Cybistax macrocarpa Benth., Godmania macrocarpa (Benth.) Hemsl., Tabebuia aesculifolia (Kunth) Hemsl., Tabebuia fuscata Hemsl., Tabebuia globiflora Ernst, Godmania uleana Kraenzl.
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Description
Species Description - Small or middle-sized tree to 20 m tall and 30 cm dbh., the bark smooth to longitudinally furrowed, the branches terete or subterete, puberulous, with a rank odor when broken. Leaves (5-)7-9-foliolate, the leaflets more or less obovate or oblanceolate, acute, attenuate-cuneate at base, membranaceous, with 7-13 secondary nerves on each side, puberulous with simple trichomes, especially along the nerves on both sides, densely impressed-lepidote at least below, when dry greenish olive above and tannish below, the terminal 8.2-16.5 cm long by 3.1-7.2 cm wide, the laterals smaller; petioles 6.6-15.5 cm long, the petiolules 0.2-2.3 cm long, puberulous. Inflorescence a flat-topped terminal panicle, few-many-flowered, the branches puberulous. Flowers with the calyx broadly campanulate, shortly 5-lobed, 1-2 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, lepidote and simple-puberulous; corolla yellow ventrally and orangish-brown dorsally outside, mostly yellow inside, top of throat and margins of three lower lobes brown, urceolate-campanulate, 1-1.6 cm long, 7-8 mm wide, the tube 9-10 mm long, the upper lobes 0.2-0.3 cm long, the lower 0.4-0.3 cm long, simple puberulous outside, short-pubescent inside on the edges of the lobes with long simple trichomes on the lower lobe, in the throat and sparsely at level of stamen insertion; stamens didynamous, the filaments pubescent, 0.6-1 cm long, the thecae divaricate, pubescent, less than 1 mm long; pistil curved against the upper surface of corolla, ca. 1 cm long, the ovary linear-conical, 2 mm long, 1 mm wide, strongly lepidote and slightly simple-puberulous; disk pulviniform, inconspicuous, 0.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide. Fruit a terete capsule, linear, twisted, 45-100 cm long, 0.9-1.5 cm wide, longitudinally finely costate, simple-puberulous; seeds narrow, bialate, with hyaline-membranaceous wings.
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Discussion
A fairly common dry forest tree in parts of Central America and northern South America, less common in moist forest and very uncommon south of Venezuela. The tiny flowers are the smallest of the neotropical Tecomeae and are distinctive in shape and color pattern. Leafless in the dry season, when the rank odor of the broken twigs (said to resemble horse urine) is a useful field character.
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Common Names
cacho de burrego, cacho de noville, cuemo chivo, roble, xopel, hocop, yuy, jayhuay, cacho de chivo, cacho de cabra, cortés, cortés bianco, corté blanco, corteza de chivo, roble, roble macho, araguaney sabanero, cacho de chivo, cacho de vaca, cacho de venado, cacho de venado sabanera, cornica- bro, cuemo de cabro, cuemo de vaca
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Distribution
Mexico to Bolivia and northernmost Brazil, mostly in seasonally deciduous forest; 0-1300 m. The coastal Ecuador population occurs mostly as living fence posts and may be introduced, although this species seems an unlikely candidate for cultivation.
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