Wild Flowering Plants
| Bignoniaceae family Tecoma stans (Linnaeus) Jussieu ex Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 3: 112 [folio]; 3: 144 [quarto]. 1819. Bas.: Bignonia stans Linnaeus (1763). Indigenous shrub/small tree of deciduous seasonal forest. Common on Moule a Chique, Vieux Fort, and the coastal edge of the Pitons, occasional elsewhere. West Indies, southwestern North America, Mesoamerica, South America. A more showy form is a cultivated ornamental. |
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