Flora of North America species comparison

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Delonix

delonix, flamboyant
Habit Trees, unarmed.
Stems

spreading, puberulent.
Leaves

alternate, even-bipinnate;

stipules present;

petiolate;

pinnae 11–20 pairs, opposite;

leaflets 20–50[+], blade margins entire, surfaces puberulent or glabrate.
Inflorescences

20–25-flowered, axillary to subterminal, racemes, corymblike;

bracts present, caducous.
Flowers

caesalpinioid;

calyx nearly actinomorphic, valvate, lobes 5;

corolla scarlet and yellow;

stamens 10, declined, slightly connate basally;

anthers dorsifixed.
Fruits

legumes, stipitate, compressed, straight, oblong, dehiscent on ground, woody, glabrous.
Seeds

20–40, slightly compressed, oblong.
x

= 14.

Delonix
Distribution
from USDA
sw Asia; e Africa; Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar) [Introduced, Florida; introduced widely]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 11 (1 in the flora).

Delonix is a genus primarily of Madagascar, with nine species endemic there; one species is endemic to Ethiopia, northern Kenya, and Somalia, and one is widespread in east Africa, Arabia, and India.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11. Treatment author: Neil A. Harriman†.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (excluding Mimosoid clade)
Subordinate taxa
D. regia
Name authority Rafinesque: Fl. Tellur. 2: 92. (1837)
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