7732.000 Tabebuia Gomes ex DC. - Trumpet trees

Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z. (1976) Hortus Third. A concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., New York

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, palmate, rarely simple. Inflorescence of terminal spikes, panicles, dense heads or umbels. Calyx unequally 2-5-lobed. Corolla funnel-shaped or funnel-shaped-campanulate, showy, yellow, white, pink, red or purple, slightly 2-lipped. Stamens 4. Fruit a linear-oblong, pendulous capsule. Seeds winged.

Derivation of name: Brazilian name

Worldwide: 100 species in tropical America

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Species	Content
chrysantha (Jacq.) Nichols.
chrysotricha (DC.) Standl.
heptaphylla (Vell.) Toledo
impetiginosa (Mart. ex DC.) Standl.
rosea (Bertol.) DC.
vellosoi Toledo

Other sources of information about Tabebuia:

Flora of Zimbabwe: native/naturalised Tabebuia page
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Tabebuia
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Tabebuia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Tabebuia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Tabebuia
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Tabebuia