Tecoma fulva

KEY TO TECOMA SPECIES IN BOLIVIA
1. Corolla yellow (sometimes with reddish veins), ventricose above a shortly cylindrical, strongly demarcated base, ±campanulate in form; anthers sparsely pilose ……2
1a. Corolla red, red and yellow, or orange (very rarely yellow), gradually widened from the base, ±cylindrical-tubular in form; anthers glabrous ……..3
2. Leaves simple; corolla completely glabrous externally ………..1. Tecoma beckii
2a. Leaves five- to nine-foliolate; corolla usually with a few hairs, at least in the sinuses of the lobes ………….2. Tecoma stans
3. Corolla regularly five-lobed, uniformly red or reddish-orange (very rarely yellow); anthers included; leaflets ovate to elliptic, serrate-dentate ……….4. Tecoma tenuiflora

KEY TO SUBSPECIS OF TECOMA FULVA
1. Leaves hirtellous; leaflets 11–21, broadly obovate, about as broad as long, mostly < 1 cm long.........a ssp. fulva
1a. Leaves glabrous or, if hirtellous, the terminal leaflet oblong, > 1.5 cm long, much longer than broad; leaflets 1–17 ………2
2. Leaf rhachis clearly winged; lateral leaflets obovate to oblanceolate, two to three times as long as broad; corolla regularly expanded from base, lacking a clearly differentiated basal tube, lobes < 7 mm long, the dorsal pair not united or united for < 2 mm; stamens at mouth of corolla, the filaments equal in length .........3
2a. Leaf rhachis unwinged or almost so; all leaflets oblong or oblong lanceolate, broadest near the centre or below, mostly three to five times as long as broad; corolla with a clearly differentiated basal tube, the lobes c. 10 mm long, the dorsal pair united for > 2 mm; two outer filaments longer than the inner pair, their anthers exserted …….5
3. Leaflets 13–17, coriaceous; the terminal leaflet only slightly larger than the laterals, obovate …………….b. ssp. arequipensis
3a. Leaflets 1–9(-11), thin in texture, the terminal leaflet much larger than the laterals, oblong ………………4
4. Leaflets 1–7 (i.e. some leaves simple); branchlets and leaves hirtellous ……………..c. ssp. tanaeciiflora
4a. Leaflets 3–9(-11), the leaves always divided into leaflets; branchlets and leaves glabrous or almost so …………….. d. ssp. guarume
5. Corolla 5–7 cm long; leaflets conspicuously serrate-dentate, teeth c. seven per centimetre …… e. ssp. altoandina
5a. Corolla 4.5–5.5 cm long; leaflets weakly toothed, teeth three to four per centimetre………………f. ssp. garrocha

After reading … comments on the identify of Tecoma in question, we together did a bit of research on this issue and found that Tecoma fulva has winged rachis whereas the Tecoma x smithii is wingless. This is an obvious difference between these two taxa. Kindly see the link for Tecoma fulva http://www.meemelink.com/prints%20pages/12834.Bignoniaceae%20-%20Tecoma%20fulva.htm and for Tecoma x smithii for http://www.californiagardens.com/Plant_Pages/tecoma_smithii.htm

Finally we came to the conclusion that … plant belongs to Tecoma fulva.

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An ornamental, cultivated, garden plant.

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