Cybistax
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GenusCybistax
Parent authorityMart. ex Meisn.
Speciesantisyphilitica
Authority(Mart.) Mart.
Synonyms
  • Bignonia antisyphilitica Mart.
  • Bignonia quinquefolia Vell.
  • Bignonia rivularis DC.
  • Bignonia viridiflora Lodd.
  • Cybistax coriacea Corr.Méllo ex Stellfeld
  • Cybistax intermedia Corr.Méllo
  • Cybistax quinquefolia (Vell.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Cybistax sprucei K.Schum.
  • Cybistax subtomentosa K.Schum.
  • Cybistax tinctoria (Spruce) Tittel
  • Phryganocydia antisyphilitica Mart. ex DC.
  • Yangua tinctoria Spruce

Cybistax is a genus of trees in the family Bignoniaceae. It contains a single species, Cybistax antisyphilitica, a tree from tropical North and South America.[1]

Description

These semi-deciduous plants have greyish green, opposite, palmately compounded leaves and close-grained, light-colored wood good for furniture. In early spring, the plants bear showy clusters of bright yellow, funnel-shaped flowers 2–2.5 cm wide at branch ends. Pods are 25–50 cm long, straight, pendulous and brown with thin, flat seeds inside. The seeds have papery wings.

References

  1. ^ Grandtner, M. M. & Chevrette, Julien (2013). Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology. Academic Press. p. 190. ISBN 9780123969545.