Tipuana

Plant Characteristics

Habit		tree
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial

Cultivation

Features:	✓	evergreen

Scientific Names

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Tipuana belongs to subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae. It has sessile leaves, and produces samara (fruit).

ExpandRead about Tipuana in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Tipuana (name apparently Latinized from a Brazilian name). Leguminosae. Showy unarmed trees, used ornamentally in the extreme southern U. S. Lvs. unevenly pinnately compound, without stipels; lfts. several, alternate; stipules minute, caducous: fls. showy, yellow or pale purplish, in loosely branched terminal panicles; calyx turbinate, teeth short and broad; standard ovate or suborbicular, not appendaged; wings obliquely obovate or oblong; keel-petals obliquely oblong, obtuse, lightly connate; stamens all connate in a sheath which is split above: pod stipitate, indehiscent, 1-3-seeded, samara-like. — About 4 species, S. Amer. Here belongs the plant recently intro. to S. Calif. as Machaerium Tipu, which is said to yield one of the rosewoods of S. Brazil. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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Species

Species list^wp:

• Tipuana amazonica Ducke (accepted name Vatairea macrocarpa)
• Tipuana auriculata Allemao (accepted name Luetzelburgia auriculata)
• Tipuana cinerascens (Benth.) Malme (accepted name Vatairea macrocarpa)
• Tipuana erythrocarpa Ducke (accepted name Vatairea erythrocarpa)
• Tipuana fusca Ducke (accepted name Vatairea fusca)
• Tipuana heteroptera (Allemao) Benth. (accepted name Vatairea heteroptera)
• Tipuana lundellii Standl. (accepted name Vatairea lundellii)
• Tipuana macrocarpa (Benth.) Benth. (accepted name Vatairea macrocarpa)
• Tipuana mucronata (Benth.) J.F. Macbr. (accepted name Vatairea macrocarpa)
• Tipuana sericea Ducke (accepted name Vatairea sericea)
• Tipuana speciosa Benth. (accepted name Tipuana tipu)
• Tipuana tipa Lillo (accepted name Tipuana tipu)
• Tipuana tipu (Benth.) Kuntze

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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