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  1. Family: Bignoniaceae Juss.
    1. Genus: Handroanthus Mattos

      1. Handroanthus impetiginosus (Mart. ex DC.) Mattos

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

    [FTEA]

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

    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.
    Leaves
    Leaves palmately 5(–7)-foliolate.
    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.
    Petiole
    Petiole 4–13 cm long ± pubescent; petiolules 1–4 cm long.
    Flowers
    Flowers in a terminal usually congested cluster or panicle.
    Calyx
    Calyx 4–9 mm long, densely pale velvety-pubescent.
    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.
    Fruits
    Fruit cylindrical, 12–56 × 1.3–2.6 cm, glabrous.
    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.

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    Distribution

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

    First published in Loefgrenia 50: 2 (1970)

    Accepted by

    • 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

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.

    Sources

    Flora of Tropical East Africa
    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 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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