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Bignoniaceae (/ b ɪ ɡ ˌ n oʊ n i ˈ eɪ s i iː /) is a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales commonly known as the bignonias or trumpet vines. It is not known to which of the other families in the order it is most closely related. Nearly all of the Bignoniaceae are woody plants, but a few are subwoody, either as vines or subshrubs.
Bignoniaceae, the trumpet creeper or catalpa family of the mint order of flowering plants ( Lamiales ). It contains about 110 genera and more than 800 species of trees, shrubs, and, most commonly, vines, chiefly of tropical America, tropical Africa, and the Indo-Malayan region. They form an important part of tropical forest ecosystems because ...
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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 ...
BIGNONIACEAE Renata G. Udulutsch & P. Acevedo-Rodríguez A pantropical family of lianas, trees, shrubs, and rarely herbs with ~79 genera and 800 species, most diverse in northern South America, and with few genera occurring in temperate North America and Asia. Represented in the Neotropics by ~45 genera and 629 species. There
Jacaranda is a genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas [1] while cultivated around the world. The generic name is also used as the common name. The species Jacaranda mimosifolia [2] has achieved a cosmopolitan distribution due to introductions, to the extent ...
The Bignoniaceae family, also known as the trumpet vine family, is a group of flowering plants that includes approximately 800 species. The family is distributed primarily in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, with some species found in temperate zones. The plants in this family can vary widely in size and form, from small ...
bignonia (bĬgnō´nēə), common name for the family Bignoniaceae, a family of chiefly woody vines of the American tropics and also a few shrubs and trees. The trumpet creeper (of the genus Bignonia) and the trumpet flower, or trumpet vine (of the genus Campsis), both found wild in the SE United States, are sometimes cultivated for their orange-red trumpet-shaped flowers.
