Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Lamiales Bromhead
Family
Bignoniaceae
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Distictis Mart. ex Meisn., Pl. Vasc. Gen. [Meissner] 300 (1840)
 Description

Evergreen lianes.  Lvs with 3 leaflets, or 2 leaflets and a terminal branched tendril;  leaflets entire.  Fls in terminal racemes or panicles. Calyx 5-lobed, 5-toothed, or truncate at apex.  Corolla funnelform or tubular-funnelform, slightly 2-lipped, purple, crimson, pink or white. Stamens 4.  Ovary 2-locular, white-villous.  Capsule ellipsoid;  septum flat.  Seeds thin, with hyaline wing.

[From:  Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
Number of species in New Zealand within Distictis Mart. ex Meisn.
CategoryNumber
Exotic: Casual1
Total1
 Bibliography
Lohmann, L.G.; Taylor, C.M. 2014: A new generic classification of tribe Bignoniaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 99(3): 348–489.
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Mabberley, D.J. 2017: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 4. Cambridge University Press.
Meisner, C.D.F. 1837-1843 ("1836-1843"): Plantarum vascularium genera secundum ordines naturales digesta eorumque differentiae et affinitates tabulis diagnosticis expositae . Edition 1. Libraria Weidmannia, Leipzig.