A taxonomic revision of Thai Fernandoa Welw. ex Seem. (Bignoniaceae)
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Ngernsaengsaruay, Chatchai
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7131-976X
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
fsciccn@ku.ac.th
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Meeprom, Nattanon
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4193-7062
Biodiversity Center, Kasetsart University (BDCKU), Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
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Boonthasak, Weereesa
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
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Attasook, Yanatshara
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
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Thunthawanich, Raweewan
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
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Fernandoa Welw. ex Seem., J. Bot. 3: 330. 1865 (sphal. Ferdinandia), nom. illeg.; J. Bot. 4: 123. 1866.
Kigelianthe
Baill., Hist. Pl. 10: 50. 1891.
Haplophragma
Dop, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 72: 889. 1925.
Spathodeopsis
Dop, Compt. Rend. Hebd.
Seances
Acad. Sci. 189: 1096. 1929; et Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.,
Ser
. 2, 2: 151. 1930.
Hexaneurocarpon
Dop, Compt. Rend. Hebd.
Seances
Acad. Sci. 189: 1097. 1929; et Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.,
Ser
. 2, 2: 153. 1930.
Tisserantodendron
Sillans, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 98: 270. 1952.
Type species.
Fernandoa superba
Welw. ex Seem. =
Fernandoa ferdinandi
(Welw.) Baill. ex K. Schum.
Description.
Trees.
Leaves
1-pinnate, imparipinnate, decussate; rachises not keeled above; leaflets 5-9, opposite, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, with scattered glands on both surfaces or a few scattered glands and small hairy domatia in the axil of lateral veins below.
Inflorescence
a terminal thyrse or raceme, densely stellate tomentose, densely dendroid tomentose, sparsely haired or glabrous.
Flowers
nocturnal; calyx persistent, campanulate or tubular-campanulate, irregularly 2-5-lobed; corolla yellowish-green, creamy white to pale yellow, corolla tube curved, constricted between basal and upper parts, basal tube short cylindrical, upper tube campanulate or infundibuliform-campanulate, bilabiate, 5-lobed, upper lobes 2 and lower lobes 3, subequal or unequal, crisped; stamens 4, didynamous, subexserted, anthers divaricate; staminode present; disc annular, surrounding the base of ovary; ovary superior, cylindrical, densely dendroid tomentose or glabrous, 2-celled, septum of the ovary flat without pseudoseptum, ovule numerous, axile placenta, style slender, stigma 2-lobed.
Fruit
a loculicidal capsule, cylindrical, twisted or straight to slightly arcuate, with longitudinal ridges, densely dendroid tomentose or glabrous, septum flat.
Seeds
numerous, flat, rather rectangular with a lateral hyaline-membranous wing.
A genus of fifteen species, distributed from Africa (5), Madagascar (3), and continental Southeast Asia to Sumatra (7); two species in Thailand.