Bignoniaceae
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Bignoniaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Family Description - Fls perfect, hypogynous, sympetalous, usually ± strongly irregular, the cor often bilabiate; cal with mostly 5 teeth or lobes, sometimes bilabiate, or the lobes sometimes suppressed; stamens on the cor-tube, alternate with the 5 lobes, commonly 4 and paired, the fifth (upper) one staminodial or wanting, or sometimes only 2 stamens polliniferous and the other 3 staminodial; ovary superior, bilocular with 2 axile placentas in each locule, or unilocular with 2 or 4 ± intruded parietal placentas; ovules ± numerous on each placenta; style terminal, with a 2-lobed stigma; fr usually capsular, often with a replum; seeds mostly flat, very often winged, mostly without endosperm (Paulownia excepted); embryo straight, the 2 cotyledons usually enlarged and ± foliaceous; mostly woody plants, very often vines, with opposite or whorled, exstipulate, simple or more often compound lvs and mostly large and showy fls in various sorts of infls. 100+/800.
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Common Names
The trumpet-creeper family