Tabebuia pallida (Introduced)

Tabebuia pallida (Lindl.) Miers, Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 3: 199 (1863) (syn: Bignonia cranalis E.H.L.Krause ; Bignonia pallida Lindl.; Tabebuia dominicensis Urb. ; Tabebuia heterophylla subsp. dominicensis (Urb.) Stehlé ; Tabebuia heterophylla subsp. pallida (Lindl.) Stehlé; Tabebuia pallida subsp. dominicensis (Urb.) Stehlé );
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Lesser Antilles; Introduced into: Bermuda, Caroline Is., Chagos Archipelago, Hawaii, Marianas, Marshall Is., Seychelles as per POWO;
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Leaves are simple but near the branch end they are trifoliate followed by inflorescence as per efi thread;
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Tabebuia pallida:
This I recorded in August 23 at “the Fern” resort, Jambughoda, Panchmahal, Gujarat.
Leaves are simple but near the branch end they are trifoliate followed by inflorescence. I was intrigued ….ID suggestion was by Arun Kumar N ….later I went through the work by Gentry published in Flora Neotropica in 1992 ….leaf arrangement matched the description provided therein for Tabebuia pallida.
As for the nomenclature ,”T. pallida” has been used as a synonym for T. heterophylla subspecies but Gentry rejected it. Later on Tabebuia was divided into three parts ….Tabebuia, Roseodendron and Handroanthus but this did not affect description of characters, T.pallida remained in tabebuia. Attached are pictures…recently planted …height about 8 to 9 feet .