Cybistax

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Bignoniaceae
Tribus: Tecomeae
Genus: Cybistax
Species: Cybistax antisyphilitica
Name

Cybistax Mart. ex Meisn., 1840
Synonyms

Heterotypic
Yangua Spruce, J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 3: 197 (1859).

References

Martius, C.F.P. von (1840) Pl. Vasc. Gen.: 208

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Cybistax in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 30. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2019. Cybistax. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 30. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Cybistax. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 30 2019.
The Plant List 2013. Cybistax in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 30.
Tropicos.org 2019. Cybistax. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 30.

Vernacular names

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

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