Bignoniaceae

• Kigelia africana

Subfamily
Tribe Bignonieae

• Adenocalymna cosmosa var. nitida
• Clytostoma callistegioides
• Distictis laxiflora
• Macfadyena unguis-cati
• Pyrostegia venusta
• Saritaea magnifica

Subfamily
Tribe Crescentieae

• Crescentia cujete

Subfamily
Tribe Tecomeae

• Pandorea jasminoides
• Podranea ricasoliana
• Spathodea campanulata
• Tecoma stans
• Tecomanthe venusta
• Tecomaria capensis

• Common Name: Yellow Bells, Yellow Elder
• Family: Bignoniaceae Juss.

• Country of Origin: tropical America
• Habitat:

• Description: "Shrub or small tree, much branched, twigs tan or reddish tan, smooth, scarcely 4-sided; leaves opposite, pinnately compound, leaflets 1-9, usually 3-7, ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base acute or obliquely acute, very shortly petiolate or subsessile, slightly hirsute on midrib and in vein axils beneath, margins irregularly serrate, leaves quite variable, rachis and petiole slender, glabrous; inflorescence an axillary or terminal raceme, pedicels short, irregularly curved or twisted, bracts reduced to minute scales, flowers rather few, calyx narrowly cylindric-campanulate, 5-7 cm long, with 5 sub-equal acuminate teeth, glabrous; corolla bright yellow, narrowly campanulate, tube narrow, about 1 cm long, throat about 2.5 cm long, dorsiventrally compressed, with 2 longitudinal folds on ventral side, 5 sub-equal spreading orbicular lobes about 8 mm long, several faint diffuse reddish lines in throat; stamens 4, attached at summit of tube, in 2 unequal pairs, included, filaments pilose at base, curved above, anthers versatile, linear, yellow, pilose, 6 mm long; sterile fifth stamen much reduced; pistil about equaling stamens, ovary narrowly cylindric, about equaling calyx, style filiform, glabrous, stigma flat, elliptic; capsule linear, compressed, 10-20 cm long, 7-8 mm wide, brown when ripe, with raised line or suture lengthwise on each flat side, tardily dehiscent along suture, septum parallel with flat sides, firm, seeds flat, oblong, 7-8 x 4 mm, with a membranous transparent wing on each end, ends of wing erose, seeds entire including wing about 20 x 6 mm" (Fosberg et al, 1993).

  Other Names: peeal (Puluwat), piti (French Polynesia)