Editing Tabebuia (section)

==Description==
[[Image:Tabebuia rosea 0001.jpg|thumb|right|Flower of Pink Poui (''[[Tabebuia rosea]]'')]]
The description below is excerpted from Grose and Olmstead (2007).<ref name="grose2007revisions"/>
*[[Tree]]s or [[shrub]]s. [[Evergreen]] or [[dry season]] [[deciduous]].
*[[Wood]] lacking [[lapachol]]; not especially dense or hard. [[Wood#Heartwood and sapwood|Heartwood]] light brown to reddish brown, not distinct from [[Glossary of botanical terms#sapwood|sapwood]].
*[[Leaf|Leaves]] sometimes [[Leaf#Divisions of the blade|simple]]; usually [[Leaf shape|palmately]] 3 to 7(9)-[[Leaf#Divisions of the blade|foliate]]; with stalked or [[Sessility (botany)|sessile]] [[Glossary of botanical terms#lepidote|lepidote]] [[Indumentum|scales]].
*[[Inflorescence]]s usually few-flowered [[panicle]]s, [[dichotomous branching|dichotomously branching]], without a well-developed, central [[rachis]].
*[[Calyx (botany)|Calyx]] [[Glossary of botanical terms#coriaceous|coriaceous]], [[Spathe|spathaceous]]; irregularly 2 to 3-[[Glossary of botanical terms#labiate|labiate]], rarely 5-[[Glossary of botanical terms#dentate|dentate]].
*[[Corolla (flower)|Corolla]] yellow in two species (''T. aurea'' and ''T. nodosa''); otherwise white to pink, rarely red, often with a yellow throat.
*[[Stamen]]s [[Stamen#Descriptive terms|didynamous]]; [[staminode]] small.
*[[Ovary (plants)|Ovary]] [[Glossary of botanical terms#linear|linear]], bilocular.
*[[Ovule]]s in two or three series in each [[locule]].
*[[Fruit]] a [[Dehiscence (botany)|dehiscent]] [[Capsule (fruit)|capsule]], usually linear, sometimes ribbed, [[Glossary of botanical terms#glabrous|glabrous]] except for lepidote scales.
*[[Seed]]s thin, with two [[Glossary of botanical terms#wing|wings]]; wings [[Glossary of botanical terms#hyaline|hyaline]], membranaceous, and sharply demarcated from the seed body.
''Tabebuia'' is distinguished from ''Handroanthus'' by wood that is not especially hard or heavy, and not abruptly divided into heartwood and sapwood. Lapachol is absent. Scales are present, but no hair. The calyx is usually spathaceous in ''Tabebuia'', but never so in ''Handroanthus''. Only two species of ''Tabebuia'' are yellow-flowered, but most species of ''Handroanthus'' are.

Unlike ''Roseodendron'', the calyx of ''Tabebuia'' is always distinctly harder and thicker than the corolla. ''Tabebuia'' always has a dichotomously branched inflorescence; never a central rachis as in ''Roseodendron''. Some species of ''Tabebuia'' have ribbed fruit, but not as conspicuously so as the two species of ''Roseodendron''.
[[File:Tabebuia sprout.jpg|thumb|Tabebuia sprout]]