CHR 498772 B – Spathodea campanulata P.Beauv.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 498772 B
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
29 October 2014
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Spathodea campanulata
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-06-24 (Verbatim: 24 Jun 1993)
Preferred name:
Spathodea campanulata P.Beauv.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Scrophulariales
Family:
Bignoniaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Tupapa Valley, near valley entrance
Verbatim locality:
Tupapa Valley, near valley entrance.
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4086/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
24 Jun 1993
Start date:
1993-06-24
Land District:
Rarotonga
Country:
Cook Islands
Habitat:
Forest margin, by new road.
Notes:
Large tree c. 20 m high, rather dense and spreading canopy. Trunk with very pale bark (not collected). Leaflets somewhat shining above with veins indented (i.e. main ones). Young shoots and petioles rusty brown. Lower leaf surface glaucescent with raised pink veins. Common but scattered. Flowers in dense terminal clusters. Calyx pale yellowish-brown, spathaceous, 6-7 cm long, curved inwards. Filaments ± orange streaked. Style pale orange. Corolla bright orange-red, rather crumpled, fugaceous, basal "stem" c. 1 cm long; expanded tube part curved and ventrocose, between c. 7 & 10 cm long according to whether back or front of corolla; veins darker inside, lobes 2.5-3 cm, very broad.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to B
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