Entry for TABEBUIA heterophylla (DC.) Britton [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]
Tree. Leaves mostly 3–5-foliolate or sometimes 1-foliolate; leaflets up to 16 x 7.5 cm, the middle one on up to 5.5 cm long stalk. Flowers in panicles that are often reduced to 1 or 2 flowers. Calyx 7–12 mm long. Corolla lavender to pale magenta or white, 3.5–7 cm long. Capsule linear-cylindric, 7–20 x 0.6–1 cm.
Range
Cultivated as an ornamental at least in N1. Native in the West Indies.
Distribution
SOMALIA McKinnon S/71.
Notes
White cedar (Eng.). First record for Somalia. The Somali plant was identified at Kew as T. pallida (Lindl.) Miers, but the 3-foliolate leaves and other features agree better with T. heterophylla as circumscribed by Gentry in Flora Neotropica 25(2): 193–198 (1992).
