Jacaranda mimosifolia D.Don

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Family : BIGNONIACEAE

Synonym : Jacaranda chelonia Griseb. 

Common Names : Jacaranda

Flowering Period : December-July

Distribution : Native of South America

Habitat : Planted as ornamental tree

Uses : Ornamental tree.

Key Characters :

Deciduous trees, to 12 m high. Leaves bipinnate, opposite, decussate, estipulate; rachis 24-30 cm long, stout, swollen at base, glabrous; pinnae 15-18 pairs, 4.5-7 cm, opposite or subopposite, slender, shortly winged between each leaflet; leaflets 21-50, opposite, sessile; lamina 0. 6-1.5 × 0.2-0.3 cm, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, base acute, apex acute or acuminate and apiculate, margin entire, glabrous, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-8 pairs, pinnate, slender, faint, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, blue, in lax pyramidal panicles terminal or axillary; pedicels 4 mm; calyx truncate, lobes 5; corolla 5 x 3 cm; tube narrow and curved below, inflated above; limb 2-lipped; lobes 5, round; stamens 4, didynamous; filaments 2 cm, converging apically, basally hairy; anthers 4 mm; staminodes 3 cm, apically hairy; ovary superior, 2-celled; ovules many; style 2.5 cm, apically 2-fid, bluish. Fruit a capsule, 5 cm across, orbicular, apically mucronate, woody; seeds many, 8 ×5 mm, winged around.