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Tabebuia rosea

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Name

Identification
Tabebuia rosea (Bertol.) A. DC. [family BIGNONIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Gentry, A., Tecoma brittonii Urb. [family BIGNONIACEAE ] Tecoma pentaphylla (L.) Juss. [family BIGNONIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Tecoma pentaphylla
  • Tabebuia pentaphylla
  • Tecoma mexicana
  • Tecoma brittonii
  • Tecoma evenia
  • Tabebuia rosea
Common name
  • óbòntólì (KD) (GHANA, GA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • pink poui (Trinidad, Irvine; U.S.A., Bates); rosy trumpet tree (U.S.A., Bates),, Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for Tabebuia rosea (Bertol.) DC. [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
Tabebuia rosea (Bertol.) DC. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Rosy Trumpet tree
Tabebuia pentaphylla [family BIGNONIACEAE], auct.* in T.T.C.L.: 73 (1949);
Tabebuia pentaphylla [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Dale, List Introd. Trees Uganda: 67 (1953) not realising they were synonyms;
Tabebuia pentaphylla [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Dale, List Introd. Trees Uganda: 67 (1953) not realising they were synonyms;
Tabebuia pentaphylla [family BIGNONIACEAE], ; Jex-Blake, Gard. in E. Afr. ed. 4: 331 (1957)
Information
Tree 12–25(–30) m tall, bark narrowly vertically fissured with corky ridges, often flowering when leafless. Leaves palmately (3–)5-foliolate; leaflets elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 8–35≈3–18 cm, acute to acuminate at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, glabrous; petiole 5–32 cm long; petiolules 0.2–3.5 cm long. Flowers many, in terminal subumbelliform panicles; pedicels up to 2 cm long; calyx 1–2 cm long, bilabiate, glabrous; corolla pink, magenta or sometimes white the throat yellow, narrowly funnel-shaped, glabrous outside, 5–8 cm long, tube 3–5.8 cm long and 1.5–3 cm wide at throat; lobes 2–2.5 cm long. Fruit linear-cylindrical, 22–38≈0.9–1.5 cm; seeds 2.8–4.4≈0.7–1 cm. Fig. 3.1–3.4, p. 19.
Range
Native of West Indies, Central and Northern South America.
Distribution
Has been grown in Uganda: Entebbe Botanic Gardens, fide DaleHas been grown in Uganda: Entebbe, Lake Victoria Hotel grounds, 7 Sept. 1970, H. Gordon EA14458Kenya Pipeline Co. H.Q. Mombasa, 8 Aug. 1983, Pipeline Co. in EA 16951Tanzania Lushoto District Mombo Arboretum, plot 15B, 13 Oct. 1971, Ngonyani 48Tanzania Amani, Plantation AC2, 24 June 1929, Greenway 1596 & Amani Nursery, 20 Mar. 1973, Ruffo 674Tanzania Zanzibar, Kisakasaka, 26 Nov. 1999, Fakih 516.

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