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This species is accepted, and its native range is Central Mexico to S. Tropical America.
Handroanthus impetiginosus

[UPB]

The Useful Plants of Boyacá project

Ecology
Alt. 5 - 1800 m.
Distribution
Native from Colombia.
Morphology General Habit
Tree.

[CPLC]

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution
Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 5 - 1800 m.; Andes, Llanura del Caribe.
Morphology General Habit
Arbolito, árbol
Conservation
No Evaluada

[FTEA]

Bignoniaceae, Sally Bidgood, Bernard Verdcourt, Kaj Vollesen. Cobaeaceae, Bernard Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2006

Morphology General Habit
In East Africa usually a deciduous shrub to 6 m but typically a tree to 30 m tall with rather smooth bark, sometimes flowering when almost leafless.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves palmately 5(–7)-foliolate.
Morphology Leaves Leaflets
Leaflets ovate to elliptic, 5–19 × 1.5–9 cm, cuneate to almost subcordate at the base, entire or slightly serrate towards apex, acuminate at the apex, glabrous to slightly pubescent above, ± densely pubescent beneath.
Morphology Leaves Petiole
Petiole 4–13 cm long ± pubescent; petiolules 1–4 cm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers in a terminal usually congested cluster or panicle.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 4–9 mm long, densely pale velvety-pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla magenta or orange-pink, the throat yellow at first becoming purplish, base of tube sometimes orange, pubescent outside, narrowly funnel-shaped; tube 2.5–5 cm long, 1.2–2 cm wide at the throat; lobes 1–2 cm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit cylindrical, 12–56 × 1.3–2.6 cm, glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 3.4–8 × 1–1.6 cm.
Note
Native of Central and South America. Uganda: Entebbe Botanic Gardens, Asst. Agric. Officer 2; Kenya: Nairobi Arboretum, Aug. 1945, Bally in CM 12360 & 15 Dec. 1952, Greenway 8746.

[UPB]
Use Materials
Materials (State of the World's Plants 2016).
Use Materials Unspecified Materials Chemicals
Materials (State of the World's Plants 2016).

Native to:

Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

Handroanthus impetiginosus (Mart. ex DC.) Mattos appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Glaziou, A.F.M. [21841], Brazil K000449912
Hassler, E. [3065], Paraguay K000449913
Lindeman, J.C. [5515], Brazil K000902013
Rambo, B. [s.n.], Brazil K000902016
Ducke, A. [2347], Brazil K000902512
Strudwick, J.J. [4310], Brazil K000902525
Dubs, B. [1721], Brazil K000902526
Hoehne, F.C. [s.n.], Brazil K000991992
Pires, J.M. [57916], Brazil K000991993
Angeli, C. [261], Brazil K000991989
Lemos, J.R. [196], Brazil K000902529
Fontella, J.P. [190], Brazil K000902006
Pires, J.M. [4184/a], Brazil K000991980
Ducke, A. [2347], Brazil K000991974
Irwin, H.S. [17607], Brazil K000902521
Sandeman, C. [2152], Brazil K000902010
Ducke, A. [22672], Brazil K000991983
Krukoff, B.A. [5637], Brazil K000991973
Ratter, J.A. [1584], Brazil K000902008
Irwin, H.S. [17742], Brazil K000902514
Queiroz, L.P. [3962], Brazil K000902530
Ducke, A. [22672], Brazil K000991984
Fróes, R.L. [29977], Brazil K000902517
Lima, A. [50/667], Brazil K000991978
Hatschbach, G.G. [16632], Brazil K000902014
Blanchet [2739], Brazil K000902510
Ducke, A. [18176], Brazil K000991985
Chagas e Silva, F. [1959], Brazil K000991986
Ducke, A. [s.n.], Brazil K000991981
Gehrt, A. [s.n.], Brazil K000902017
Dubs, B. [1441], Brazil K000902527
Wurdack, J.J. [178], Brazil K000902518
Seibert, R.J. [3028], Brazil K000902020
Pires, J.M. [7142], Brazil K000991979
Eiten, G. [4841], Brazil K000991977
Burchell [8378], Brazil K000902513
Rodal, M.J.N. [411], Brazil K000902524
Hatschbach, G.G. [16588], Brazil K000902012
Lindeman, J.C. [5459], Brazil K000991988
Ducke, A. [18181], Brazil K000991975
Ducke, A. [s.n.], Brazil K000902523
Sehnem, A. [1608], Brazil K000902015
Ducke, A. [s.n.], Brazil K000991976
Heringer, E.P. [3884], Brazil K000902515
Ratter, J.A. [44], Brazil K000902011
Joly, A.B. [s.n.], Brazil K000902018
Griffiths, A. Jr. [4908], Brazil K000902009
Chagas e Silva, F. [1959], Brazil K000991987
Glaziou [12980], Brazil K000902516
Pires, J.M. [58018], Brazil K000902519
Fontella, J.P. [190], Brazil K000902007
Blanchet [2739], Brazil K000902511
Fontella, J.P. [195], Brazil K000902005
Joly, A.B. [s.n.], Brazil K000902019
Irwin, H.S. [17607], Brazil K000902522
Heohne, F.C. [39547], Brazil K000991991
Duarte, A.P. [s.n.], Brazil K000902520
Ducke, A. [22672], Brazil K000991982
Angeli, C. [261], Brazil K000991990
Heringer, E.P. [5099], Brazil K000902528
Gossweiler, J. [13948], Angola Tabebuia palmeri K001009759
Palmer, E. Dr. [361], Mexico Tabebuia palmeri K000449870

First published in Loefgrenia 50: 2 (1970)

Accepted by

  • Arbo, M.M. & al. (2018). Flora Argentina. Flora vascular de la República Argentina 20(1): 1-488. INTA, IMBIV & IBODA.
  • Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Grose, S.O. & Olmstead, R.G. (2007). Taxonomic revisions in the polyphyletic genus Tabebuia s. l. (Bignoniaceae) Systematic Botany 32: 660-670.

Not accepted by

  • Gentry, A.H (1992). Bignoniaceae-Part II (Tribe Tecomeae) Flora Neotropica, Monograph 25(II): 1-370. [Cited as Tabebuia impetiginosa.]

Literature

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • ColPlantA (2021). "ColPlantA. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.colplanta.org/"

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Kew's Economic Botany collection in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Gentry, A.H (1992). Bignoniaceae-Part II (Tribe Tecomeae) Flora Neotropica, Monograph 25(II): 1-370.
  • Gentry, A.H. (1982). Bignoniaceae Flora de Veracruz 24: 1-222. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones sobre Recursos Bióticos, Xalapa, Veracruz.
  • Gentry, A.H. in Steyermark, J., Berry, P.E., Holts, B.K. (eds). (1997). Bignoniaceae Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana 3: 403-491. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
  • López Patiño, E.J., Szeszko, D.R., Rascala Pérez, J. & Beltrán Retis, A.S. (2012). The flora of the Tenacingo-Malinalco-Zumpahuacán protected natural area, state of Mexico, Mexico Harvard Papers in Botany 17: 65-167.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
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Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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Kew Science Photographs
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ColPlantA database
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