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Bignonia purpurea

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Identification
Clytostoma purpureum (Lodd. ex Hook.f.) Rehder [family BIGNONIACEAE ] Bignonia purpurea Lodd. ex Hook. f. [family BIGNONIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Adenocalymma splendens
  • Mansoa difficilis
  • Bignonia purpurea
  • Clytostoma purpureum

Flora

Entry for Clytostoma binatum (Thunb.) Sandw. [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
Clytostoma binatum (Thunb.) Sandw. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Clytostoma binatum (Thunb.) Sandw. [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Bignonia purpurea Hook. f. [family BIGNONIACEAE], ; Jex-Blake, Gard. in E. Afr. ed. 4: 132, 354 (1957)
Information
Climber with long slender stems. Leaves with 2 leaflets and sometimes tendrils; leaflets elliptic to oblong-ovate, 6–15≈3.5–6.5 cm, shortly to long-acuminate, entire. Flowers 1–4, axillary or appearing terminal; calyx 4–6 mm long, truncate or minutely denticulate; corolla lavender, pink or pale purplish with white centre; tube 2.5–5.5 cm long; lobes ovate, 1–2.5≈1.5–2 cm. Fruit ellipsoid, 4–7≈1.8–2.8 cm, densely echinate; seeds discoid-cordiform, 2.5–3.5≈1.2–3 cm.
Range
Native of Central and Northern America.
Notes
No material has been seen from East Africa.

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