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(Last Modified On 5/22/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/22/2013)
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Species
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Tabebuia pallida (Lindl.) Miers
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PlaceOfPublication
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Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. 3: 199. 1863.
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Synonym
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Bignonia pallida Lindl., Bot. Reg. 12: tab. 965. 1826. TYPE: St. Vincent, cultivated, Caley s.n. (not seen).
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Description
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Shrub or small tree. Leaves 1-5-foliolate (in Panama mostly 5-foliolate) the leaflets elliptic to elliptic-oblong, obtuse, basally rounded, chartaceous, lepidote. Inflorescence a few-flowered terminal panicle, often reduced to one or 2 flowers. Flowers with the calyx cupular, bilabiate, lepidote; corolla pinkish- lavender to almost white, the throat opening yellow; tubular-infundibuliform; stamens didynamous, the thecae divaricate; ovary lepidote, the ovules 2-seriate in each locule. Capsule linear-cylindric, attenuate at both ends, 7-15 cm long (rarely to 22 cm, fide Sandwith, 1954), lepidote, the calyx persistent; seeds bialate, 7-9 mm long and 2-3 cm wide, the wings hyaline-membranaceous, sharply demarcated from the seed body.
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Habit
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Shrub or small tree
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Note
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A common and highly variable West Indian species, T. pallida is cultivated as an ornamental in various parts of the tropics. It is known in Panama only from a single tree at Summit Gardens. Tabebuia pallida is close to T. rosea but is separated by its usually smaller, obtuse leaflets.
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Distribution
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West Indian species
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Summit Gardens, cultivated, Nee & Mori 3579 (MO, WIS).
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