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Tecoma tenuiflora (DC.) Fabris [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
Tecoma tenuiflora (DC.) Fabris [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Information
Semi-erect shrub 1–2.5 m tall. Leaflets 2–6-jugate, elliptic, 0.5–5≈0.2–2.5 cm, acute or acuminate, acutely serrulate. Flowers in terminal racemes. Calyx 3–6 mm long with narrow acute teeth. Corolla yellow (in specimens seen but typically red or dark red-orange fide Gentry), very narrowly funnel-shaped, not curved, the tube 4–6 cm long with lobes 4–7 mm long; anthers just exserted from tube. Fruit 6–10(–15)≈0.6–1 cm.
Range
Native of Southern Bolivia and Northwest Argentina. This species has been cultivated in one garden in Kenya and probably elsewhere
Distribution
Kenya Nairobi District Karen, Hort. Gardner, Feb. 1963, Gardner in EAH 12666 & 18 Jan. 1966 , Gillett 17045 & 1971 , Gillett 19305 .
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
Tecoma tenuiflora (DC.) Fabris [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Information
Semi-erect shrub 1–2.5 m tall. Leaflets 2–6-jugate, elliptic, 0.5–5≈0.2–2.5 cm, acute or acuminate, acutely serrulate. Flowers in terminal racemes. Calyx 3–6 mm long with narrow acute teeth. Corolla yellow (in specimens seen but typically red or dark red-orange fide Gentry), very narrowly funnel-shaped, not curved, the tube 4–6 cm long with lobes 4–7 mm long; anthers just exserted from tube. Fruit 6–10(–15)≈0.6–1 cm.
Range
Native of Southern Bolivia and Northwest Argentina. This species has been cultivated in one garden in Kenya and probably elsewhere
Distribution
Kenya Nairobi District Karen, Hort. Gardner, Feb. 1963, Gardner in EAH 12666 & 18 Jan. 1966 , Gillett 17045 & 1971 , Gillett 19305 .
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
Tecoma tenuiflora (DC.) Fabris [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Information
Semi-erect shrub 1–2.5 m tall. Leaflets 2–6-jugate, elliptic, 0.5–5≈0.2–2.5 cm, acute or acuminate, acutely serrulate. Flowers in terminal racemes. Calyx 3–6 mm long with narrow acute teeth. Corolla yellow (in specimens seen but typically red or dark red-orange fide Gentry), very narrowly funnel-shaped, not curved, the tube 4–6 cm long with lobes 4–7 mm long; anthers just exserted from tube. Fruit 6–10(–15)≈0.6–1 cm.
Range
Native of Southern Bolivia and Northwest Argentina. This species has been cultivated in one garden in Kenya and probably elsewhere
Distribution
Kenya Nairobi District Karen, Hort. Gardner, Feb. 1963, Gardner in EAH 12666 & 18 Jan. 1966 , Gillett 17045 & 1971 , Gillett 19305 .
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