Balkarji, Thanks for your excellent info . on the family Bignoniaceae. Thanks also for taking trouble in compiling the data.
On Saturday, January 5, 2013 9:02:47 PM UTC-8, Balkar wrote: > > 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 > --
