WorldFloraDB - Millingtonia

Characteristics

Medium-sized evergreen or deciduous tree with corky bark. Leaves 2-3-pinnate, with domatia. Thyrses lax,-flowered, terminal. Flowers white, fragrant, nocturnal. Calyx small, truncate-campanulate, ± 5-lobed, persistent. Corolla salver-shaped, glabrous, with a very long, slender, basal tube at apex widening towards the limb, limb at base short funnel-shaped, zygomorphic (± 2-lipped), 5-lobed, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, glabrous, inserted at the base of the widened part of the tube (throat), shortly exserted, no staminode; anthers with 1 fertile cell, the other spur-like, barren; connective dorsal, swollen. Disk cup-shaped, crenate. Capsule linear, compressed parallel to the septum, septicid-dehiscent, valves flat. Seeds, thinly discoid, winged.

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Trees. Leaves opposite, 2-or 3-pinnately compound; leaflets ovate, entire. Inflorescences cymose-paniculate, terminal. Calyx cupular, small, apex subtruncate, with very short teeth. Corolla bilabiate, tube long and narrow, upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed; lobes valvate, ovate-lanceolate, densely pubescent adaxially along margin. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted high in corolla tube; 1 anther cell fertile and ellipsoid, another caudate and appendagelike. Disc annular-cupular. Ovary sessile, ovoid. Style long; stigma lingulate, compressed, 2-lobed, slightly exserted from corolla tube. Capsule dehiscing septicidally, long linear, compressed. Seeds in several rows, minute, compressed, winged.

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Lowland monsoon forest.

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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:4143-1
WFO ID	wfo-4000024309
COL ID	99FCR
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	445504
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Synonyms

Millingtonia

Lower taxons

Millingtonia hortensis

WorldFloraDB 2024

Millingtonia L.F.

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Bignoniaceae