Jacaranda ulei
Jacaranda ulei is a flowering tree native to the Cerrado region of Brazil. It was first described by Édouard Bureau and Karl Moritz Schumann in 1897.
Description
Jacaranda ulei is a small tree, growing to between and tall. The leaves are in length and bipinnate, having between 8 and 12 pinnae and 6 to 16 leaflets. Leaflets are long, wide and "narrowly oblong" in shape. The flowers are deep purple in colour and arranged in a branched, Panicle form. They are 5 to 10mm long and 4 to 7 mm wide with 5 shallow dentate. The fruit is woody and "round to elliptic" in shape, growing long and wide.The species is a resprouter, with its root system allowing it to survive wild fires and droughts seen in the savanna ecosystem of the Cerrado region of Brazil.