Dear All
We will start the year 2013 with celebrations of monthly episodes with
family Bignoniaceae From January 7 to 13.
You are requested to upload photographs of plants of this family during
this week, both identified and unidentified.
Please remember to have subject line as "Bignoniaceae Week:
..................(name or unique code) from
.....................(place/place + for ID)".
For example for identified: "Bignoniaceae Week: Campsis radicans from
Sunder Nursery Delh"
For unidentified plants: "Bignoniaceae Week: For Id 070113 BS 01 from
Panipat Haryna"
Here 070113 means January 7 2013 and BS as Initials and 01 mean first
post for id on January 07. Panipat is place from where plant was shot
Here I am Presenting a brief Intro about Family Bignoniaceae
1. This family consists of about 113 genera, 800 species (excluding
Paulownia) and widely distributed in both tropical and subtropical regions.
In temprate regions this family is represented by only a few species. This
family is well known for their ornamental value. Many plants of this family
are grown in garden for their large tubular showy flowers like Campsis,
Kigelia, Jacaranda, Spathodia, Tecoma, Bignonia, Tecomeria, Pyrostegia,
Tabebuia, Catalpa, Crescentia and many more
2. This family includes usually woody lianas or trees. The important
characters of this family include - petiolated leaves, usually opposite,
often compound, sometimes with tendrils, nectaries on leaves, flowers
zygomorphic,
showy, Calyx fused with 5 sepals, petals 5 fused and often bilabiate, stamens
4 inserted usually on corolla tube, carpels 2, Stigma generally
sensitive, ovary
superior, 2-chambered, ovules many, fruit a woody capsule, seeds often
winged.
3. Some of the Plants expected to be there in this family week are as
follows
Adenocalymna comosum
Anemopaegma chamberlaynii
Campsis grandiflora
Campsis radicans
Catalpa ovata
Crescentia cujete
Dolichandrone atrovirens
Dolichandrone falcata
Haplophragma adenophyllum
Heterophragma quadriloculare
Incarvillea arguta
Incarvillea emodi
Jacaranda mimosifolia
Jacaranda obtusifolia ssp. rhombifolia
Kigelia africana
Mansoa alliacea
Markhamia lutea
Millingtonia hortensis
Oroxylum indicum
Pandorea jasminoides
Parmentiera cereifera
Podranea brycei
Pyrostegia venusta
Radermachera xylocarpa
Saritaea magnifica
Spathodea campanulata
Stereospermum chelonoides
Stereospermum tetragonum
Tabebuia aurea
Tabebuia berteroi
Tabebuia heterophylla
Tabebuia rosea
Tabebuia roseo-alba
Tecoma capensis
Tecoma castanifolia
Tecoma fulva
Tecoma stans var. angustata
Tecoma stans
Tecomella undulata
For More Details about this family you can visit on following links
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bignoniaceae
2. http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Bignoniaceae/
3. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/65081/Bignoniaceae
4. http://theseedsite.co.uk/bignoniaceae.html
5. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=10102
6.
http://www.flowersofindia.net/risearch/search.php?query=bignoniaceae&stpos=0&stype=AND
7. http://www.flickr.com/groups/treesofindia/pool/tags/bignoniaceae/
8. http://www.indianaturewatch.net/view_cat.php?tag=Bignoniaceae
9. http://www.outreachecology.com/landmark/category/botany/bignoniaceae/
10. http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/genera/bignoniaceaegen.html
Books
1. Plant Systematics Third edition by Gurcharan Singh Science Publishers
2. Families and Generas of Vascular plants by Kubitzki
3. Plant Systematics A Phylogenetic Approach bu Judd
4. Plant Systematics by Simpson
5. Contemporary Plant Systematics by Woodland
*All the members are requested to post maximum plants belonging to family
Bignoniaceae during this. *
--
Regards
Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology &
Horticulture Incharge
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964
--
