Pandorea nervosa


Pandorea nervosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Bignoniaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a woody vine that grows in rainforest and has pinnate leaves with three or five leaflets, and white, tube-shaped flowers.

Description

Pandorea nervosa is a woody vine with a stem diameter up to. The leaves are pinnate with three or five leaflets about long and wide, the leaves on a petiole long, the end leaflet sessile or on a petiolule up to long. The flowers are borne near the ends of the stems in dense clusters on a peduncle about long, each flower on a pedicel long. The five sepals are long and fused at the base forming a bell-shaped tube with lobes about long. The five petals are white and fused at the base forming a tube about long and in diameter with lobes about long. The fruit is a capsule about long containing winged seeds.

Taxonomy

Pandorea nervosa was first formally described in 1931 by Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis in the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum from specimens collected near Boonjie on the Atherton Tableland in 1929. The specific epithet means "many veins".

Distribution and habitat

This pandorea grows in rainforest at altitudes between in north-eastern Queensland and on Mount Elliot in central eastern Queensland.