Cybistax
Cybistax | |
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C. antisyphilitica | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Bignoniaceae |
Genus: | Cybistax Mart. ex Meisn.[1] |
Type species | |
C. antisyphilitica (Mart.) Mart.[1] | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Cybistax is a genus containing a single species, Cybistax antisyphilitica (Mart.) Mart.,[3] a flowering and economic timber tree from tropical Central and South America. These semi-deciduous plants have greyish green, opposite, palmately compounded leaves and close-grained, light-colored wood good for furniture. In early spring, the plants bear showy clusters of bright yellow, funnel-shaped flowers 2-2.5 cm wide at branch ends. Pods are 25–50 cm long, straight, pendulous and brown with thin, flat seeds inside. The seeds have papery wings.
References
- 1 2 The genus Cybistax was originally described and published in Pl. Vasc. Gen. 2: 208. 1840. "Name - Cybistax Mart. ex Meisn.". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved July 17, 2010.
Type Specimens
T: Cybistax antisyphilitica (Mart.) Mart. Published in Systema Materiae Medicae Vegetabilis Brasiliensis 66. 1843. - ↑ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, entry for Cybistax antisyphilitica". Retrieved June 3, 2014.
- ↑ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, entry for Cybistax"". Retrieved June 3, 2014.
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