Cybistax
{{Short description|Genus of trees}}
{{Speciesbox
|image = Cybistax antisyphilitica.jpg
|display_parents = 3
|genus = Cybistax
|parent_authority = Mart. ex Meisn.
|species = antisyphilitica
|authority = (Mart.) Mart.
|synonyms = *Bignonia antisyphilitica Mart.
- Bignonia quinquefolia Vell.
- Bignonia rivularis DC.
- Bignonia viridiflora Lodd.
- Cybistax coriacea Corr.Méllo ex Stellfeld
- Cybistax intermedia Corr.Méllo
- Cybistax quinquefolia (Vell.) J.F.Macbr.
- Cybistax sprucei K.Schum.
- Cybistax subtomentosa K.Schum.
- Cybistax tinctoria (Spruce) Tittel
- Phryganocydia antisyphilitica Mart. ex DC.
- Yangua tinctoria Spruce
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Cybistax is a genus of trees in the family Bignoniaceae. It contains a single species, Cybistax antisyphilitica, a tree from tropical North and South America.{{Cite book|title=Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology|last=Grandtner|first=M. M.|last2=Chevrette|first2=Julien|date=2013|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=9780123969545|pages=190|language=en}}
Description
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These semi-deciduous plants have greyish green, opposite, palmately compounded leaves and close-grained, light-colored wood good for furniture. In early spring, the plants bear showy clusters of bright yellow, funnel-shaped flowers 2–2.5 cm wide at branch ends. Pods are 25–50 cm long, straight, pendulous and brown with thin, flat seeds inside. The seeds have papery wings.
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Category:Monotypic Lamiales genera
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