Notes on the Rhodocolea racemosa (Lam.) H. Perrier (Bignoniaceae) species complex Author Phillipson, Peter B. Missouri Botanical Garden, P. O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166 - 0299, U. S. A. & Institut de Systématique, Évolution, et Biodiversité (UMR 7205 – CNRS MNHN EPHE UPMC), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, C. P. 39, rue Cuvier 57, F- 75231 Paris CEDEX 05, France. peter.phillipson@mobot.org Author Callmander, Martin W. Missouri Botanical Garden, P. O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri, 63166 - 0299, U. S. A. Currently at: Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, C. P. 60, 1292 Chambésy, Switzerland. text Candollea 2015 2015-12-01 70 2 257 265 journal article 20884 10.15553/c2015v702a13 85508c46-5c11-4834-864c-dc41d3a1c119 2235-3658 5721413 Rhodocolea racemosa (Lam.) H. Perrier in Ann. Mus. Colon. Marseille ser. 5, 6: 24. 1938 . ≡ Bignonia racemosa Lam., Encycl. 1: 424. 1785. ≡ Colea racemosa (Lam.) Baill. in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 685. 1889 . Lectotypus (here designated): MADAGASCAR : sine loc ., s.d., Commerson s.n. ( P-JUSS , cat. n°4988 [ P00680416 ]!; isolecto-: G [ G00341646 ]!, P [ P00647477 ]!). Syntypus : MADAGASCAR : sine loc ., s.d., Commerson s.n. ( P-JUSS , cat. n°4988 [ P00680417 ]!; isosyn-: P [ P00647476 , P00647478 ]!). – Rhodocolea racemosa f. microphylla H. Perrier in Ann. Mus. Colon. Marseille ser. 5, 6: 27. 1938 [nom. inval.]. Observations . – Rhodocolea racemosa is characterised by fine leafy branches, but bearing leaves with a rather variable number of leaflets from (3-)5-11, the leaflets are small (the terminal usually < 6 mm long), ovate to ovate-lanceolate, or elliptic, relatively thin-textured, and generally tapered at both ends. The inflorescences are borne mostly on the young growth, rarely cauliflorous, the axes are fine and not markedly flattened, and the flowers tend to be rather regularly spaced giving a racemose appearance. The corolla is variously described as deep pink, reddish or purple, with various markings in the throat. The species occurs at low to mid elevation on various substrates in the Fort Dauphin area in south-east Madagascar , including in littoral forest on sand.