Characteristics
Dicots
Handroanthus chrysotrichus (Mart. ex DC.)Mattos
GOLDEN TRUMPET TREE
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Often cultivated in Florida, this species is characterized by its villous pedicel, calyx, and fruit with long trichomes and the corolla lobes drying lighter than the tube. Another similar species, H. chrysanthus, has a tomentose pedicel, calyx, and fruit with shorter stellate trichomes and the dried corolla lobes are generally concolorous with the tube (Gentry 1992: 131-132).
Not Native
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Classification
LAMIALES
Handroanthus chrysotrichus (Mart. ex DC.)Mattos - GOLDEN TRUMPET TREE
Citation
HANDROANTHUS CHRYSOTRICHUS (Martius ex de Candolle) Mattos, Loefgrenia 50: 2. 1970.
Tecoma chrysotricha Martius ex de Candolle 1970.
BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro: Santa Theresa, s.d., Guillemin 783 (lectotype: G-DC). Lectotypified by A. H. Gentry, Fl. Neotrop. 25(2): 170. 1992.
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Specimens and Distribution
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