Tecoma

For the suburb of Melbourne, see Tecoma, Victoria.

Tecoma
Tecoma stans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Bignoniaceae
Tribe:	Tecomeae
Genus:	Tecoma Juss.
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Kokoschkinia Turcz. Stenolobium D.Don

Tecoma is a genus of 14 species of shrubs or small trees in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae. Twelve species are from the Americas, while the other two species are African. The American species range from the extreme southern United States through Central America and the Antilles south through Andean South America to northern Argentina. The generic name is derived from the Nahuatl word tecomaxochitl, which was applied by the indigenous peoples of Mexico to plants with tubular flowers.

Species

• Tecoma arequipensis (Sprague) Sandwith
• Tecoma capensis (Thunb.) Lindl. – Cape Honeysuckle (Southern Africa)
• Tecoma castanifolia (D.Don) Melchior – Chestnutleaf Trumpetbush
• Tecoma cochabambensis (Herzog) Sandwith
• Tecoma fulva (Cavanilles) D.Don
• Tecoma garrocha Hieronymus
• Tecoma guarume DC.
• Tecoma nyassae Oliv.
• Tecoma rosifolia Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth
• Tecoma sambucifolia Kunth
• Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth – Yellow Trumpetbush (Americas)
  • Tecoma stans var. stans
  • Tecoma stans var. velutina DC.
• Tecoma tanaeciiflora (Kränzlin) Sandwith
• Tecoma tenuiflora (DC.) Fabris
• Tecoma weberbaueriana (Kränzlin) Melchior

Formerly placed here

Campsidium valdivianum (Phil.) Skottsb. (as T. valdiviana Phil.) Campsis ×tagliabuana (Vis.) Rehder (as T. tagliabuana Vis.) Pandorea jasminoides (Lindl.) K.Schum. (as T. jasminoides Lindl.) Pandorea pandorana (Andrews) Steenis (as T. australis R.Br. or T. pandorana (Andrews) Skeels) Paratecoma peroba (Record & Mell) Kuhlm. (as T. peroba Record & Mell) Podranea brycei (N.E.Br.) Sprague (as T. brycei N.E.Br.) Podranea ricasoliana (Tanfani) Sprague (as T. mackenii W.Watson or T. ricasoliana Tanfani) Tabebuia alba (Cham.) Sandw (as T. alba Cham.) Tabebuia aurea (Silva Manso) Benth. & Hook.f. ex S.Moore (as T. argentea Bureau & K.Schum. or T. caraiba Mart.) Tabebuia bahamensis (Northr.) Britton (as T. bahamensis Northr.) Tabebuia berteroi (DC.) Britton (as T. berteroi DC.) Tabebuia chrysantha subsp. meridionalis A.H.Gentry (as T. spectabilis Planch. & Linden)

Tabebuia chrysotricha (Mart. ex DC.) Standl. (as T. chrysotricha Mart. ex DC.) Tabebuia guayacan (Seem.) Hemsl. (as T. guayacan Seem.) Tabebuia heptaphylla (Vell.) Toledo (as T. ipe Mart. ex K.Schum.) Tabebuia heterophylla (DC.) Britton (as T. leucoxylon (L.) Mart. ex DC. or T. pentaphylla Juss. ex DC.) Tabebuia impetiginosa (Mart. ex DC.) Standl. (as T. impetiginosa Mart. ex DC.) Tabebuia ochracea subsp. heterotricha (DC.) A.H.Gentry) (as T. heterotricha DC.) Tabebuia ochracea subsp. ochracea (as T. ochracea Cham.) Tabebuia rosea (Bertol.) DC. (as T. rosea Bertol.) Tabebuia serratifolia (Vahl) G.Nicholson (as T. serratifolia (Vahl) G.Don) Tecomanthe dendrophila (Blume) K.Schum. (as T. dendrophila Blume) Tecomella undulata (Sm.) Seem. (as T. undulata (Sm.) G.Don)