Tecoma
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Tecoma | |
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Tecoma stans | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Bignoniaceae |
Tribe: | Tecomeae |
Genus: | Tecoma Juss.[1] |
Species | |
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Tecoma is a genus of 14 species of shrubs or small trees in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae. Twelve species are from the Americas, while the other two species are African. The American species range from the extreme southern United States through Central America and the Antilles south through Andean South America to northern Argentina. The generic name is derived from the Nahuatl word tecomaxochitl, which was applied by the indigenous peoples of Mexico to plants with tubular flowers.[2]
Species
- Tecoma arequipensis (Sprague) Sandwith
- Tecoma capensis (Thunb.) Lindl. – Cape Honeysuckle (Southern Africa)
- Tecoma castaneifolia (D.Don) Melch. – Chestnutleaf Trumpetbush
- Tecoma cochabambensis (Herzog) Sandwith
- Tecoma fulva (Cavanilles) D.Don
- Tecoma garrocha Hieronymus – Argentine
- Tecoma guarume DC.
- Tecoma nyassae Oliv.
- Tecoma rosifolia Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth
- Tecoma sambucifolia Kunth
- Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth – Yellow Trumpetbush (Americas)
- Tecoma stans var. stans
- Tecoma stans var. velutina DC.
- Tecoma tanaeciiflora (Kränzlin) Sandwith
- Tecoma tenuiflora (DC.) Fabris
- Tecoma weberbaueriana (Kränzlin) Melchior[3][4]
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References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Taxon: Tecoma Juss.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2005-02-09. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
- ↑ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. 4 R-Z. Taylor & Francis US. p. 2637. ISBN 978-0-8493-2678-3.
- ↑ "Tecoma". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "GRIN Species Records of Tecoma". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2011-02-18.
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