Spathodea P.Beauv.

Trees. Leaves imparipinnate, 9-10-foliolate. Inflorescence a terminal raceme, the lower pedicels longer. Flowers with the calyx large, spathaceous, narrow-ing to a recurved tip; corolla red-orange or crimson, usually with a yellow fringe, large, broadly campanulate above a cylindrical base, glabrous outside; anthers glabrous, the thecae divaricate; ovary narrowly oblong, the ovules multi-seriate in each locule. Fruit a narrowly oblong-elliptic capsule, the valves keeled, narrowed at the ends, dehiscing perpendicularly to the septum; seeds flat, winged, the wings broad and hyaline-membranaceous.