Tabebuia
Sign in to savethumb|Three seeds with septum and valves of split pod of Tabebuia sp. at MHNT
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLamiales
- FamilyBignoniaceae
Native toArgentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia
Observations recorded41,452
Use: Several are frequently planted for ornament, e.g. Tabebuia
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,714
- With media
- 316
- Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, INECOL, FC-UNAM, ECOSUR, UACH, BRY
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Cuba, United States
Research
293 papers- Tabebuia impetiginosa: A Comprehensive Review on Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry, and Immunopharmacological Properties.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
- Red Lapacho (Tabebuia impetiginosa)--a global ethnopharmacological commodity?Journal of ethnopharmacology · 2009
- The complete chloroplast genome of Tabebuia rosea (Bignoniaceae).Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources · 2024
- Selective activity of Tabebuia avellanedae against Giardia duodenalis infecting organoid-derived human gastrointestinal epithelia.International journal for parasitology. Drugs and drug resistance · 2025
- Endophytic fungi isolated from medicinal plants: future prospects of bioactive natural products from Tabebuia/Handroanthus endophytes.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2018
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Distribution
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Taxonomic history
- Description
- Uses
- Ecology
- Symbolism
- Gallery of ''Tabebuia'' flowers
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|Three seeds with septum and valves of split pod of Tabebuia sp. at MHNT
Tabebuia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae. Tabebuia consists almost entirely of trees, but a few are often large shrubs. A few species produce timber, but the genus is mostly known for those that are cultivated as flowering trees.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tabebuia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.