6679.000 Beaumontia Wall.

Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.

Description of the genus

Woody climber. Leaves opposite. Inflorescence of terminal cymes, the flowers subtended by leaf -like bracts. Calyx large with leafy lobes. Corolla funnel-shaped, large, white. Stamens with long filaments, widened above, united, adherent to the stigma. Ovaries 2. Fruit long, cylindric, woody, splitting into 2 follicles.

Derivation of name: Named after a Lady Beaumont from Yorkshire

Worldwide: 9 species from India and China to Bali

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.

Beaumontia grandiflora

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Other sources of information about Beaumontia:

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Beaumontia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Beaumontia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Beaumontia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Beaumontia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Beaumontia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Beaumontia
JSTOR Plant Science: Beaumontia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Beaumontia
Plants of the World Online: Beaumontia
Tropicos: Beaumontia
Wikipedia: Beaumontia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: genus page: Beaumontia.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=1649, retrieved 19 March 2024

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