Cybistax

Cybistax
C. antisyphilitica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Bignoniaceae
Genus: Cybistax
Mart. ex Meisn.[1]
Type species
C. antisyphilitica
(Mart.) Mart.[1]
Synonyms[2]

Cybistax is a genus containing a single species, Cybistax antisyphilitica (Mart.) Mart.,[3] a flowering and economic timber tree from tropical Central and South America. These semi-deciduous plants have greyish green, opposite, palmately compounded leaves and close-grained, light-colored wood good for furniture. In early spring, the plants bear showy clusters of bright yellow, funnel-shaped flowers 2-2.5 cm wide at branch ends. Pods are 25–50 cm long, straight, pendulous and brown with thin, flat seeds inside. The seeds have papery wings.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1  The genus Cybistax was originally described and published in Pl. Vasc. Gen. 2: 208. 1840. "Name - Cybistax Mart. ex Meisn.". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved July 17, 2010. Type Specimens
    T: Cybistax antisyphilitica (Mart.) Mart. Published in Systema Materiae Medicae Vegetabilis Brasiliensis 66. 1843.
  2. "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, entry for Cybistax antisyphilitica". Retrieved June 3, 2014.
  3. "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, entry for Cybistax"". Retrieved June 3, 2014.