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Arrabidaea magnifica

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Identification
Arrabidaea magnifica (W.Bull) Sprague ex Steenis [family BIGNONIACEAE ] Saritaea magnifica (W.Bull) Dugand [family BIGNONIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Alwyn Howard (Al) Gentry,
Related name
  • Arrabidaea magnifica
  • Bignonia magnifica
  • Bignonia not on sheet
  • Saritaea magnifica

Flora

Entry for Saritaea magnifica (Steenis) Dugand [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2006) Author: SALLY BIDGOOD, BERNARD VERDCOURT & KAJ VOLLESEN
Names
Saritaea magnifica (Steenis) Dugand [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Bignonia magnifica [family BIGNONIACEAE], ; Jex-Blake, Gard. in E. Afr. ed. 4: 132, 332 (1957)
Arrabidaea magnifica Steenis [family BIGNONIACEAE], ; Jex-Blake, Gard. in E. Afr. ed. 4: 132, 332 (1957)
Information
Climber to 10 m. Leaves with two leaflets and usually a tendril; leaflets obovate, 3.5–10.5≈2–7 cm, obtuse; pseudostipules leafy, 0.6–4.2≈0.4–2 cm. Flowers in basically terminal few-flowered panicles; calyx 6–10 mm long; corolla magenta-pink or purple, white in throat with purple-red nectaries (Ruffo reported flowers blue), funnel-shaped, tube ± 6.5 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide at the throat; lobes ± 3≈2.5–3 cm. Fruit linear, flattened, ± 29≈1 cm; seeds ± 3.5≈0.8 cm including wing. Fig. 2.1–2.2, p. 15.
Range
Native of Colombia and Ecuador; has been grown in E Africa, all material seen is from Tanzania
Distribution
Tanzania Lushoto District Amani Nursery, 4 Feb. 1939, Greenway 5856 & Amani, 28 Oct. 1969, Ruffo 273 & 10 Feb. 1971, Furuya 135 & Amani, Bustani, 31 Oct. 1969, Ngoundai 421Tanzania Zanzibar, 1927, Toms 9M.

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