Common name: Large-leaved Wonga Vine
Pandorea baileyana (Maiden & R.T.Baker) Steenis APNI* Synonyms: Tecoma baileyana Maiden & R.T.Baker APNI*
Description: Woody climber, secondary branches usually pendent.
Leaves opposite or sometimes in whorls of 3 or 4, 13–30 cm long; leaflets 7–9, ovate, 5.5–14 cm long, 2–5.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base rounded or slightly tapering, surfaces glabrous and with net veins and main lateral veins raised and obvious, especially on lower surface; petiole 2–7 cm long; petiolules 2–3 mm long.
Inflorescences 10–30 cm long. Calyx 3–4 mm long. Corolla 1–1.5 cm long, cream with pink throat, sparsely hairy but not bearded, minutely hairy outside; tube curved, 2–4 mm diam.; lobes 2–3 mm long.
Fruit not seen.
Flowering: September–March
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in subtropical and warm-temperate rainforest; north from Minyon Falls (Lismore district).
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by A. L. Quirico
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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