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Bignonia
Bignonia grandifolia - Curtis.jpg
Bignonia grandifolia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Bignoniaceae
Tribe: Bignonieae
Genus: Bignonia
L. nom. cons.[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Anisostichus Bureau
  • Clytostoma Miers ex Bureau
  • Clytostomanthus Pichon
  • Cydista Miers
  • Levya Bureau ex Baill.
  • Macranthisiphon Bureau ex K.Schum.
  • Micropaegma Pichon
  • Mussatia Bureau ex Baill.
  • Osmhydrophora Barb.Rodr.
  • Phryganocydia Mart. ex Bureau
  • Phrygiobureaua Kuntze
  • Pongelia Raf.
  • Potamoganos Sandwith
  • Roentgenia Urb.
  • Saritaea Dugand
  • Temnocydia Mart. ex DC.

Bignonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae. Its genus and family were named after Jean-Paul Bignon by his protégé Joseph Pitton de Tournefort in 1694, and the genus was established as part of modern botanical nomenclature in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus. Species have been recorded from the southern USA, Central to most of South America.[3]

Species

Species include:[4]

  • Bignonia binata Thunb.
  • Bignonia bracteomana (K.Schum. ex Sprague) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia callistegioides Cham.
  • Bignonia campanulata Cham.
  • Bignonia capreolata L.
  • Bignonia convolvuloides (Bureau & K.Schum.) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia corymbosa (Vent.) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia costata (Bureau & K.Schum.) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia cuneata (Dugand) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia decora (S.Moore) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia diversifolia Kunth
  • Bignonia hyacinthina (Standl.) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia lilacina (A.H.Gentry) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia longiflora Cav.
  • Bignonia magnifica W.Bull
  • Bignonia microcalyx G.Mey.
  • Bignonia neouliginosa L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia nocturna (Barb.Rodr.) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia phellosperma (Hemsl.) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia potosina (K.Schum. & Loes.) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia prieurei DC.
  • Bignonia pterocalyx (Sprague ex Urb.) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia ramantacea (Mart. ex DC.) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia sciuripabula (K.Schum.) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia sordida (Bureau & K.Schum.) L.G.Lohmann
  • Bignonia uleana (Kraenzl.) L.G.Lohmann

References

  1. ^ The International Plant Names Index
  2. ^ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  3. ^ Plants of the World Online: Bignonia L.
  4. ^ The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, retrieved November 16, 2016

External links

  • Media related to Bignonia at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Bignonia at Wikispecies
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