Herbarium JCB

Tecoma stans (L.) Kunth

Family : BIGNONIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Bignoniaceae
Species : Tecoma stans
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth
Common name : Yellow Bells
Vernacular name : Gaudichaudi (Kan.)
Collection Nos : CJS 12488, Kalpana 3
Key identification features : An evergreen shrub. Leaves pinnately compound with variable number of leaflets. Flowers in terminal panicles, showy and yellow. Fruit is a linear capsule; seeds winged. New tropics.
Habit : Shrub
Native : Tropical America
Comments : Popular shrub for planting in parks.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara