Taxon: Handroanthus impetiginosus (Mart. ex DC.) Mattos

Genus:

Handroanthus

Family:

Bignoniaceae

Nomen number:

454772

Place of publication:

Loefgrenia 50:2. 1970

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

02-abr-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 02-abr-2008

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

11 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Synonyms:

(=) Tabebuia avellanedae Lorentz ex Griseb.
(≡) Tabebuia impetiginosa (Mart. ex DC.) Standl.
(=) Tabebuia palmeri Rose
Basionym: Tecoma impetiginosa Mart. ex DC.

Common names:

pink trumpet-tree (Source: Trop Flow Pl) - English
taheebo (Source: Herbs Commerce) - English
îpe-roxo (Source: Herbs Commerce) - Portuguese
pau-d'arco (Source: Herbs Commerce) - Portuguese
ipe (Source: Trop Flow Pl) - Spanish
lapacho (Source: Phytother Res) - Spanish
quebracho (Source: Trop Flow Pl) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2, as Tabebuia impetiginosa; Herbs Commerce ed2, as Tabebuia impetiginosa)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Sinaloa, Sonora]
SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla]

Southern America

CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela
BRAZIL: Brazil
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia (e.), Colombia, Peru
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina (n.w.), Paraguay

Reference:

American Herbal Products Association Herbs of commerce. 1992 (Herbs Commerce)

Check other web resources for Handroanthus impetiginosus (Mart. ex DC.) Mattos :

Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=454772. Accessed 7 junio 2026.