Bignonia
Genus of flowering plants / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Bignonia (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Begonia.
Bignonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae. Its genus and family were named after Jean-Paul Bignon by his protégé Joseph Pitton de Tournefort in 1694, and the genus was established as part of modern botanical nomenclature in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus. Species have been recorded from the southern USA, Central to most of South America.[3]
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Bignonia | |
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Bignonia grandifolia | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Bignoniaceae |
Tribe: | Bignonieae |
Genus: | Bignonia L. nom. cons.[1] |
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