Zeyheria tuberculosa (Vell.) Bureau ex Verl.
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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 illustration. Brazil. Rio de Janeiro: Pharmacapolis. Icon. Fl. flumin. 6: t. 46. 1831.
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Synonyms
Bignonia tuberculosa Vell., Jacaranda tuberculosa (Vell.) Steud., Zeyhera kuntzei K.Schum.
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Description
Species Description - Shrub or tree 3-20 m tall, to 25 cm dbh with thick vertically fissured bark; branchlets subtetragonal, rather thick and corky, when young tomentose with stellate trichomes, glabrescent. Leaves (3-)5-foliolate, the leaflets oblong-obovate, obtuse to cuspidate-acuminate at apex, rounded to truncate at base, 4-18 cm long, 2-9.5 cm wide, entire or very remotely and irregularly subserrate toward apex, thick-membranaceous, minutely and intricately bullate with the tertiary venation impressed above and raised below, densely puberulous below with stellate and dendroid trichomes, above more sparsely puberulous with stalked-stellate trichomes, drying strongly discolorous, dark olive above, pale grayish below; petiole 4-20 cm long, tannish puberulous with stellate trichomes, the petiolules 0.3-4.5 cm long, the lateral pair usually very reduced. Inflorescence a broad dichotomously much-branched terminal panicle, densely stellate puberulous, each dichotomy subtended by a puberulous linear bract 0.5-2 cm long. Flowers brownish or tannish to yellowish outside, orange to somewhat reddish or purplish inside, the calyx bilabiately split to base, each lobe ovate, acute, 4-5 mm long, densely but somewhat glabrescently stellate tomentose; corolla broadly campanulate without a narrow basal tube, rather bilabiate with narrow lobes, 1-1.5 cm long, 0.8-1 cm wide at mouth of tube, the tube 0.8-1 cm long, the lobes 0.3-0.4 cm long, tube and lobes densely stellate-tomentose outside, glabrous inside; filaments glabrous, inserted near tube base, the anther thecae divaricate, thick, ca. 1 mm long; ovary broadly obovoid, densely stellate-pilose, ca. 2 mm long and wide; disk not obviously differentiated from base of ovary. Fruit a broadly obovoid to round capsule, somewhat compressed, 9-13 cm long, 9-11 cm wide, ca. 4 cm thick, covered with numerous irregularly projecting soft spiny enations to 1 cm long, the surface tannish stellate tomentose; seeds thin, elliptic to suborbicular, to 4 cm long and 5 cm broad, the large round seed body 1.5-2 cm in diam., with a distinctly verrucose surface, surrounded on three sides by broad hyaline-membranaceous wing with strong brownish striations in basal part.
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Discussion
Distribution and Ecology: Deciduous “mata atlantica” forests of southeastern Brazil from São Paulo to Pernambuco; apparently disjunct in Bolivia; 50-1000 m elevation. Representative specimens examined. BRAZIL. Bahia: Encruzilhada, Rio Parod, 23 May 1968 (st), Belém 3615 (IAN, MO, NY); 6 km from Maracas, Contendas do Sincora, 14 Feb 1979 (fl), Mattos-Silva et al. 243 (NY). Ceará: Viçosa do Ceará, Serra da Ibiapaba, 14 Jun 1979 (fl), A. Fernandes et al. s.n. (EAC6490) (EAC). Espírito Santo: Vitoria para Linhares, 19 Feb 1965 (fl), Duarte 8832 (MO, NY). Maranhão: BR230, estrada para Pastos, S. João dos Patos, 20 Apr 1980 (fl), A. Fernandes & Nunes s.n. (EAC8458) (EAC). Minas Gerais: Varzea da Palma, Faz. de Mãe d’Aqua, 25 Nov 1962 (fl), Duarte 7412 (MO, RB). Pernambuco: Quipapa, Uzina Agua Branca, 12 Jul 1950 (fl), Lima 50-585 (IPA, MO). Piauí: Depois do Pontão, limite Maranhão/Piauí, 21 Feb 1979 (fl), A. Fernandes et al. s.n. (EAC5633) (EAC). São Paulo: Santa Genebra Forest Reserve, near Campinas, 26 Aug 1987 (st), Gentry & Silva 58676 (MO). BOLIVIA. Santa Cruz: Prov. Andres Ibañez, 6 km NW of Terevinto, 17°41'S, 63°25'W, 450 m, 29 Aug 1987 (fr), Nee & Coimbra 35842 (MO).
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Common Names
culhoes de bode, ipe-branco, buxo de boi, jopo de mono
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Objects
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Distribution
Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America| Ceará Brazil South America| Espirito Santo Brazil South America| Maranhão Brazil South America| Minas Gerais Brazil South America| Pernambuco Brazil South America| Piauí Brazil South America| São Paulo Brazil South America| Bolivia South America| Santa Cruz Bolivia South America|