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Kigelia Dc.

Sausage tree (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Bignoniaceae

Characteristics

Medium-sized trees with spreading crowns. Leaves imparipinnately com-pound, usually 7-9-foliolate. Inflorescence a pendulous racemose panicle with the central axis greatly elongated, hanging flagelliflorously below lower branches. Flowers with the calyx large, cupular, irregularly 5-toothed; corolla brownish maroon, campanulate above a tubular base; stamens more or less didynamous, the anther thecae not divergent; ovary cylindrical, lepidote; disc large, annular-pulvinate. Fruit very large, indehiscent, cylindrical-oblong, fibrous and woody, to 12 cm or more in diameter, commonly to 50 cm long; seeds flat, wingless, the cotyledons folded in half along their central axis.
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Corolla large, widely campanulate; limb bilabiate and 5-lobed; corolla tube cylindrical at the base, widening and uncurving upwards.
Stamens 4, didynamous, adnate to the top of the cylindrical part of the corolla tube; staminode 1, rather large.
Ovary terete, unilocular, placenta parietal 2, widely intruded; ovules numerous, pluriseriate.
Fruit large, cylindrical, pendulous, wood-walled, indehiscent, with a fibrous pulp.
Inflorescence a terminal, lax, pendulous panicle, longly pedunculate.
Calyx campanulate to almost tubular, irregularly lobed, coriaceous.
Seeds numerous, thick; wingless, testa coriaceous.
Medium or large tree with a rounded crown.
Leaves imparipinnate, opposite or ternate.
Disk annular, thick.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Images

Kigelia unspecified picture

Distribution

Kigelia world distribution map, present in Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:4109-1
WFO ID wfo-4000019993
COL ID 5887
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 445503
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Synonyms

Kigelkeia Kigelia

Lower taxons

Kigelia africana
WorldFloraDB 2024