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Doxantha unguis-cati

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Identification
Doxantha unguis-cati (L.) Miers [family BIGNONIACEAE ]
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Entry for Macfadyena unguis-cati (L.) Gentry [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
Macfadyena unguis-cati (L.) Gentry [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Brittonia 25: 236 (1973); Liben in F.A.C., Bignon.: 36 (1977); Bidgood in F.Z. 8(3): 64 (1988). Lectotype: Tab. 94 in Plumier, Pl. Amer. (1756), chosen by Nasir, Fl. Pakistan 131: 18 (1979)
Bignonia unguis-cati L. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 623 (1753)
Bignonia tweediana Lindl. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Bot. Reg. 26: t. 45 (1840); Jex-Blake, Gard. E. Afr., ed. 4: 132, 332, 356 (1957). Type: Argentina, imported from Buenos Ayres by Strangeways (CGE?, holo.)
Doxantha unguis-cati (L.) Miers [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Proc. Hort. Soc. 3: 190 (1863) (as ‘ D. unguis ’*)
Information
Climber to 10 m, often forming dense covering on trunks etc. Roots sometimes with ellipsoid tubers. Leaflets elliptic, 5–16≈0.9–7 cm (smaller when young), narrowed to a ± rounded base, acutely acuminate at the apex, glabrous; petiole 1–4.7 cm long, petiolules 0.5–2.5 cm long. Inflorescences 1–3(–15)-flowered. Calyx 0.5–1.8 cm long with undulate margin. Corolla bright yellow, sometimes with orange lines in throat, 4.5–10 cm long; tube 3.3–6.9 cm long, 1.2–2.5 cm wide at throat; lobes 1.3–3.1 cm long. Capsule 26–95≈1–1.9 cm, narrowed at apex. Seeds thin, strongly winged at both ends, narrowly rectangular, ± 4.8≈0.8 cm. Fig. 5.1–5.5, p. 23.
Range
DISTR. U 4; K 4, 5, 7; T 3 Central and South America, West Indies; widely cultivated in tropics and greenhouses
Altitude range
350–400 m (naturalized specimens)
Distribution
KENYA Nairobi District Nairobi, Riverside Drive, Jan. 1953, Bally 8487!KENYA Kisumu–Londiani District Fort Ternan, Kipchui Farm, July 1958, Firth H226/58!KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Baraza Park, 29 July 1993, Luke 3610!TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani Nursery, Feb. 1978, Ruffo 1498! & roadside near Amani Nursery, 30 Sept. 1977, Sigara 10!UGANDA Mengo District W Mengo, Kyebando, 14 Mar. 1990, Rwaburindore 2959!
Notes
At least some of the specimens cited appear to form naturalised populations but this needs confirmation. Rwaburindore states the tendrils are sticky.

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