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Tabebuia aurea

Silver Tabebuia

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Silver Tabebuia, Tree-of-Gold, Silver Trumpet-tree; German Ipé-Bäume

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Brazil

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Not naturalised; Land, lowlands

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Ornamental flowers

KEY FEATURES: Evergreen tree to 8m. LEAVES opposite, compound, digitate. LEAFLETS 5-7, oval to narrow-oval, to 20cm, without teeth, leathery, silvery grey-green, stalklets long. FLOWERS large terminal clusters; bell-shaped with 5 rounded lobes, pale to bright yellow. FRUIT narrow cylinder to 15cm. SEEDS winged.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Tabebuia donnell-smithii has leaflets underside hairy (vs. without hairs); edges toothed (vs not toothed); tip sharp (vs. rounded); stalklets short (vs. long).

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea: -
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
+?X	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Northern Group: -
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
-	-	-	-	-	-

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Tabebuia aurea (Silva Manso)
SYNONYMS: Tabebuia argentea; Tabebuia caraiba

TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); MAGNOLIOPSIDA (=Dicotyledones); ASTERIDAE; Scrophulariales; BIGNONIACEAE

More Information

GENERAL NOTE: Introduced to Rarotonga from Hawaii by Robert Rousseau, c.1960s

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: fieldspecimen+photo, Avarua opp. Post Office, 1980s, ID F.Stalker & G.McCormack.

References:
p.768 Neal - In Gardens of Hawaii
p.1093 Hortus 3rd
p.190 Tropica

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zupB03a, zM02, zupM03a, zupD03a

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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