Family: Bignoniaceae

Description: 

Trees, 12-18 m high; bark smooth, light brownish-grey. Leaves opposite, decussate, imparipinnate; leaflets 9-19, opposite, elliptic-oblong. Flowers ca. 8 cm long, bright red, in terminal racemes. Calyx 5-6 cm long, spathaceous, yellowish-brown velutinous. Corolla tube 7-9 cm long, reddish-orange, yellowish within, glandular; lobes 5. Stamens subequal, inserted at the base of swollen portion of the tube; filaments 4-6 cm long. Fruit a capsule, 15-20 cm long, lanceolate-oblong, woody; seeds many, winged.