Tabebuia pallida Miers

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Bignoniaceae > Tabebuia

Characteristics

Shrub or small tree. Leaves 1-5-foliolate (in Panama mostly 5-foliolate) the leaflets elliptic to elliptic-oblong, obtuse, basally rounded, chartaceous, lepidote. Inflorescence a few-flowered terminal panicle, often reduced to one or 2 flowers. Flowers with the calyx cupular, bilabiate, lepidote; corolla pinkish-lavender to almost white, the throat opening yellow; tubular-infundibuliform; stamens didynamous, the thecae divaricate; ovary lepidote, the ovules 2-seriate in each locule. Capsule linear-cylindric, attenuate at both ends, 7-15 cm long (rarely to 22 cm, fide Sandwith, 1954), lepidote, the calyx persistent; seeds bialate, 7-9 mm long and 2-3 cm wide, the wings hyaline-membranaceous, sharply demarcated from the seed body.
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A large shrub or tree. It is larger than Tabebuia heterophylla. The leaves are usually simple. Occasionally they have 3 leaflets. The leaf blades are oval and 20 cm long by 12 cm wide. The flowers are pale pink or white. They are large. They are 5-8 cm long. There can be 1 or several in a cluster at the ends of the branches. The fruit is a pod like capsule 10-20 cm long by 15 mm wide. It splits open. There are many winged seeds.
Shrub or small tree. Leaves 1-5-foliolate, leaflets elliptic to elliptic oblong or obovate, obtuse. Inflorescence few-flowered, often reduced to 1 or 2 flowers. Corolla pinkish lavender to almost white, the throat opening yellow.
Life form annual
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

A tropical plant. They grow in the tropics. It grows on the dry coast in the Lesser Antilles.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Leaves are used for tea.
Uses material medicinal tea
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Cold (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds.
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Images

Habit

Tabebuia pallida habit picture by Lemaire Romain (cc-by-sa)
Tabebuia pallida habit picture by MaiteO (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Tabebuia pallida leaf picture by Lemaire Romain (cc-by-sa)
Tabebuia pallida leaf picture by MaiteO (cc-by-sa)
Tabebuia pallida leaf picture by MaiteO (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Tabebuia pallida flower picture by Yohan Bradshaw (cc-by-sa)
Tabebuia pallida flower picture by Radagast The Brown (cc-by-sa)
Tabebuia pallida flower picture by Lemaire Romain (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Tabebuia pallida world distribution map, present in Anguilla, Barbados, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Guam, Indonesia, Saint Lucia, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Martinique, Mauritius, Panama, Palau, Thailand, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Conservation status

Tabebuia pallida threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:110996-1
WFO ID wfo-0000780227
COL ID 549LC
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 447002
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Synonyms

Bignonia cranalis Bignonia pallida Tabebuia dominicensis Tabebuia heterophylla subsp. pallida Tabebuia heterophylla subsp. dominicensis Tabebuia pallida subsp. dominicensis Tabebuia pallida