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Jacaranda mimosifolia

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Name

Identification
Jacaranda mimosifolia D.Don [family BIGNONIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Jacaranda mimosifolia
Common name
  • jacaranda., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • jacaranda; blue jacaranda; green ebony (the wood)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for JACARANDA mimosifolia D. Don [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Tardelli & L. Settesoldi (Jacaranda, Kigelia, Markhamia, Rhigozum, Tecoma) and M. Thulin (Crescentia, Spathodea, Tabebuia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
JACARANDA mimosifolia D. Don [family BIGNONIACEAE], (1822). Fig. 212.
JACARANDA ovalifolia R. Br. [family BIGNONIACEAE], (1822).
Information
Shrub or tree, 5–10 m tall. Leaves twice pinnately compound; rhachis 30–45 cm long, in many pairs, each with 10–28 pairs of mucronate leaflets, 8–18 x 3–6 mm. Calyx c. 2 mm long. Corolla blue or violet, c. 5 cm long, silky. Capsule 6–7 x 4–5 cm, oblong-ovate, flattened, woody. Seeds c. 1.5 x 2 cm, including wing.
Range
Cultivated as an ornamental at least in S2 native of Argentina.
Distribution
SOMALIA Warfa 558, 567.

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