Medium sized trees. Leaves large, pinnate; leaflets entire. Flowers large, in terminal panicles. Calyx large, not spathaceous, glandular. Stamens 4,subexserted. Disk large. Ovary appressed hairy. Capsule without a false septum, cylindrical, curved, dehiscing loculicidally. Seeds discoid, winged.

13 species. Tropical Africa (W. & E.), Madagascar, SE.Africa & N.Sumarta. Represented in Pakistan by 1 cultivated species.

Lower Taxon

• Fernandoa adenophylla (Wall. ex G.Don) V. Steenis

Related Synonym(s):

• Bignonia adenophylla Wall. ex G. Don = Fernandoa adenophylla (Wall. ex G.Don) V. Steenis
• Haplophragma adenophyllum (Wall.) P.Dop = Fernandoa adenophylla (Wall. ex G.Don) V. Steenis
• Heterophragma adenophylla Seem. ex Benth. & Hook.f. = Fernandoa adenophylla (Wall. ex G.Don) V. Steenis
• Spathodea adenophylla DC. = Fernandoa adenophylla (Wall. ex G.Don) V. Steenis