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Jacaranda rufa

Jacaranda rufa
Photo: João Medeiros, CC BY 2.0
Family
Bignoniaceae (Trumpet-vine family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Bolivia to Brazil
Climate
wet tropical

About

Jacaranda rufa (syn. Pteropodium hirsutum DC.) is a medicinal plant native to Bolivia and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

Other Jacaranda plants

Jacaranda arborea · Jacaranda brasiliana · Jacaranda caerulea · Jacaranda caroba · Jacaranda caucana · Jacaranda copaia · Jacaranda decurrens · Jacaranda micrantha · Black poui · Jacaranda obtusifolia · Jacaranda subalpina · Jacaranda ulei

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jacaranda rufa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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