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(Last Modified On 5/22/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/22/2013)
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Genus
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Tecoma Juss.
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Gen. 139. 1789.
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Note
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LECTOTYPE: T. stans (L.) Juss. ex H.B.K.
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Synonym
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Stenolobium D. Don, Edinburgh Phil. Jour. 9: 264. 1823. TYPE: S. castanifolium D. Don = T. castanifolia (D. Don) Melch. Kokoschkinia Turcz., Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 2: 33, tab. 2. 1849. TYPE: T. gaudichaudi DC. (fide Index Kewensis).
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves simple, 3-foliolate or imparipinnately com- pound, the leaflets serrate. Inflorescence a terminal raceme or racemose panicle. Flowers with the calyx cupular, with 5 shallow, often apiculate, deltoid lobes, corolla yellow or orangish, tubular-campanulate to narrowly tubular-infundib- uliform, glabrous outside; stamens exserted or included, the anthers variously divergent, glabrous or pilose; pollen grains single, oblong, 3-colpate, the exine microreticulate; ovary narrowly cylindric, lepidote, the ovules 2-seriate in each locule; disc cupular-pulvinate. Fruit a linear capsule, somewhat compressed parallel to the septum but dehiscing perpendicularly to it, the valves smooth, more or less glabrous; seeds thin, bialate, the wings hyaline-membranaceous, sharply demarcated from the seed body.
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Habit
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Shrubs or small trees
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Distribution
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About a dozen species ranging from extreme southern Arizona and southern Florida through tropical America to northern Argentina, especially in the Andes.
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