Pandorea baileyana

Pandorea baileyana, commonly known as large-leaved wonga vine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Bignoniaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a woody climber with pinnate leaves that have seven to nine egg-shaped leaflets, and relatively small cream-coloured flowers that are pink inside.

Description

Pandorea baileyana is a woody climber. Its leaves are usually arranged in opposite pairs and are long with seven or nine egg-shaped leaflets long and wide. Each leaf is glabrous with prominent main veins, on a petiole long, each leaflet on a petiolule long. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in groups long, the five sepals long. The petal tube is long and in diameter, cream-coloured and pink in the throat with lobes long. Flowering occurs from September to March.

Taxonomy

This species was first formally described in 1896 by Joseph Maiden and Richard Thomas Baker, who gave it the name Tecome baileyana in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales from specimens collected near Mullumbimby Creek by William Baeuerlen. In 1927, Cornelius van Steenis changed the name to Pandorea baileyana. The specific epithet honours Frederick Manson Bailey.

Distribution and habitat

Pandorea baileyana grows in rainforest from south-eastern Queensland to Minyon Falls in northern New South Wales.