Tecoma castanifolia (D.Don) Melch., Bignoniaceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Other Latin names:  Stenolobium castanifolium D. Don; Tecoma gaudichaudii DC.

Common name(s): [more details]

English: chestnutleaf trumpetbush

Habit:  shrub/tree

Description:  "Glabrous or the leaves especially when young weakly to densely pubescent beneath with stellate trichomes; leaves oblong-elliptic, acute or the leaflets of trifoliate leaves acuminate, the lateral typically smaller than the medial, this often 1.5-2.5 dm. long, 6-9 cm. wide; panicles typically spiciform or branched (in Peru simple or subsimple); calyx 3-4 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. broad, equally 5-dentate; corolla 3.5 to 3.8 cm. long, width (in herb.) 12 mm. (or broader); tube 1-1.5 mm. broad, two and a half to three times longer than calyx; capsules 2 cm. long"  (Macbride, 1961; 5C/1:80-81).

Habitat/ecology:  (no habitat/ecology info known by PIER)

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  Ecuador and Peru (GRIN).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	O‘ahu Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Herbarium Pacificum Staff (1998) (p. 9) Vouchers cited: Landgraf s.n. (BISH 43016), D. Preston & F. Howarth s.n. (BISH 646673) "Reproducing and spreading in Lualualei Valley".

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Ecuador (Mainland) Ecuador	Ecuador (Republic of) (continental)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Perú Perú	Perú (Republic of)	native	Macbride, J. Francis (1936) (pp. 80-81)

Additional information:
Additional online information about Tecoma castanifolia is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Tecoma castanifolia as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Tecoma castanifolia may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Herbarium Pacificum Staff. 1998. New Hawaiian plant records for 1997. In: Evenhuis, Neal L. and Miller, Scott, E., eds. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1997. Part 2: Notes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 56:8-14.

Macbride, J. Francis. 1936. Flora of Peru. Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series, Vol. XIII. 1936-1971, 6 parts.

Staples, George W./Herbst, Derral/Imada, Clyde T. 2000. Survey of invasive or potentially invasive cultivated plants in Hawai‘i. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers No. 65. 35 pp.

U. S. Government. 2011. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) (on-line resource).

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.