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BIGNONIACEAE Current Angiosperm Phylogeny Group Tree for Flowering Plants Bignoniaceae, LAMIALES LAMIALES Acanthaceae Bignoniaceae Byblidaceae Carlemanniaceae Cyclocheilaceae Lamiaceae Lentibulariaceae Martyniaceae Myoporaceae Orobanchaceae Paulowniaceae Pedaliaceae Phrymaceae Plantaginaceae Schlegeliaceae Scrophulariaceae Stilbaceae Verbenaceae Bignoniaceae Lamiales version of Asterids with •opposite, compound leaves •seeds with wings of hair Catalpa - North American Bignoniaceae BIGNONIACEAE (LAMIALES, EUASTERIDS I) NUMBERS: 100 Genera, 800 sp ecies GEOGRAPHY: mainly tropical, best developed in tropical A merica HABITAT: va rious ; commone st in d rier, lower forests ASTERIDAE CHARA CTERS: fused petals , two carpell ate gynoec ium, stamens equa l to or fewer than petals , adna te to petals , disk present LAMIALES CHARA CTERS: leave s opposite, bilaterally symmetrical flowers with stamens fe wer than coroll a lobes, supe rior ova ry, fruit a capsule CHARAC TERS DIAGNOSTIC OF FAMILY: Habit woody : trees or lia nas (there are an awful lot of li anas ) Leave s compound (or rarely s imple) and usuall y oppo site; tend rils when present are trans forme d leaf tips Flowers large and co lorful (or poorly co lored in ba t-pollinated Crescentia, Enallagma) Gynoec ium stigmas, sens iti ve to touch , close together to conceal receptive portion ; ovules many per carpel Fruit usua lly an elonga te capsule dehiscing to yield seeds wit h hairs matted into a wing; ano malous spher ic al, ind ehiscent fruit s in Crescentia and Enallagma have fleshy hair s Tabebuia - common in drier neotropics Spathodea - ubiquitous ornamental Lianas area common in the Bignoniaceae. Cydistus Anisostichus anomalous wood in the lianas Crescentia - the calabash Kigelia - the sausage tree of Africa