English: Trumpet Creeper
Family; Jacaranda family; Bignonia family; Catalpa family.
Botany: 120 genera; ± 700 species; tropics, subtropics, South America; woody, trees, lianas, shrubs; stem with cross pattern in liana’s; leaves compound, with tendrils; stamens 4 with a staminode; fruit a pod; seeds winged.
TaxonomyIn the
Apg3 classification Bignoniaceae is
Family in
Lamiales.
Bignoniaceae was formerly placed in Scrophulariales.
In the
Plant theory Verbenales is split off from
Lamiales.
Bignoniaceae is in
Subphase 5 in
Verbenales.
Schlegeliaceae and
Bignoniaceae form a monophyletic group.
Schlegeliaceae is included in
Bignoniaceae.