Family of the week: BIGNONIACEAE
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satish phadke
Mar 13, 2008, 2:20:35 PM3/13/08
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This week's Family is
BIGNONIACEAE
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BIGNONIACEAE
We are currently observing a lot of flowering trees from this family.
BIGNONIACEAE (Trumpet Creeper Family)
Mostly tropical.Around 40 species in India mostly in western and southern India and some in Himalayas.
Vegetative characters:
Plant type trees,shrubs,woody climbers with tendrils or roots
Stem in climbers:abnormal secondary growth.
The Leaves :Opposite..rarely whorled or alternate
More frequently pinnately compound terminal leaflet often modified to tendril.
Stipules absent.
Flowers and Inflorescence:
Inflorescence:Dichasial cyme.
Bracts and bracteoles present.
Flowers :Showy,perfect,hermaphrodite,zygomorphic and hypogynous.
Calyx: gamosepalous,Campanulate.
Corolla :Gamopetalous,Bell or funnel shaped. % subequal lobes or bilabiate-Upper lip 2lobes;Lower lip 3lobes.
Stamens : 4 didynamous 5th reduced to staminode.Epipetalous.
Gynoecium :Bicarpellary and syncarpous with a superior ovarywhich is bilocular.
Style terminal,simple,and stigma is two lipped.
Nectar disc :cushion like or annular at the base of the ovary.
Fruit : Two valved:loculicidal or septicidal capsule fleshy and indehiscent in Kigelia.
Seeds : Compressed discoid.
Pollination :Showy flowers nectar:-insect pollination.
Seed dispersal :Seeds mostly winged:-Wind dispersal.
Examples.
Spathodia campanulata.
Jacaranda mimosaefolia
Kigellia pinnata
Heterophragma
Tabebuia
Tecoma
Pyrostegia
Campsis
Radermachera xylocarpa.
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Posted By SATISFIED to SATISFIED at 3/13/2008 09:56:00 AM
BIGNONIACEAE (Trumpet Creeper Family)
Mostly tropical.Around 40 species in India mostly in western and southern India and some in Himalayas.
Vegetative characters:
Plant type trees,shrubs,woody climbers with tendrils or roots
Stem in climbers:abnormal secondary growth.
The Leaves :Opposite..rarely whorled or alternate
More frequently pinnately compound terminal leaflet often modified to tendril.
Stipules absent.
Flowers and Inflorescence:
Inflorescence:Dichasial cyme.
Bracts and bracteoles present.
Flowers :Showy,perfect,hermaphrodite,zygomorphic and hypogynous.
Calyx: gamosepalous,Campanulate.
Corolla :Gamopetalous,Bell or funnel shaped. % subequal lobes or bilabiate-Upper lip 2lobes;Lower lip 3lobes.
Stamens : 4 didynamous 5th reduced to staminode.Epipetalous.
Gynoecium :Bicarpellary and syncarpous with a superior ovarywhich is bilocular.
Style terminal,simple,and stigma is two lipped.
Nectar disc :cushion like or annular at the base of the ovary.
Fruit : Two valved:loculicidal or septicidal capsule fleshy and indehiscent in Kigelia.
Seeds : Compressed discoid.
Pollination :Showy flowers nectar:-insect pollination.
Seed dispersal :Seeds mostly winged:-Wind dispersal.
Examples.
Spathodia campanulata.
Jacaranda mimosaefolia
Kigellia pinnata
Heterophragma
Tabebuia
Tecoma
Pyrostegia
Campsis
Radermachera xylocarpa.
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Posted By SATISFIED to SATISFIED at 3/13/2008 09:56:00 AM
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Kiran Srivastava
Mar 15, 2008, 2:00:36 AM3/15/08
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I already posted some photos of Heterophragma quadriloculare locally called Varas or Waras earlier this week.
I notice the the pink Tabebuia flowers in Mumbai. The Tabebuia argentia, Yellow Golden Bell is also found in Mumbai but I haven’t seen it as yet.
Cheers,
Kiran Srivastava
Mumbia
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This week's Family is
BIGNONIACEAE
We are currently observing a lot of flowering trees from this family.
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