Brazilian rosewood occurs as neotropical genus in the family Bignoniaceae. Its members zero in size from either suffrutex to big trees.

When is typically a instance sustaining plants, a genus title is besides utilized when a most common title for cultivated varieties. A virtually all typically seen is the Blue Jacaranda Jacaranda mimosifolia (syn. J. acutifolia). This is widely grown for its ornamental value. More members of a genus come as well commercially significant; for instance the Copaia (Jacaranda copaia) is crucial for its timber because of its exceptionally long bole.

Members of the genus Caviuna wood differ from either more Bignoninaceae by with the staminode that is longer than a stamens, 3-colpate pollen, and the chromosome number of 18. A flowers of most coinage come blue or even blue-purple to magenta, though two or three use whiten flowers.

A genus is divided into 2 sections, Monolobos & Dilobos, according to a total of theca on the anthers. Division Monolobos (which includes Blue Jacarandas) has Eighteen coinage & is detected primarily in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and american South America as well around smaller amounts in South Africa (particularly in Pietermaritzburg and Pretoria), where settlers imported a ornamental trees. Dilobos, which is believed to exist as a primitive form, has 31 metal money & is noticed primarily around sub-Amazonian Brazil and the adjacent Parank Valley. A anatomy of the wood in the two sections as well differs. Although normally treated within Monolobos, Caviuna wood copaia seems to become different from either totally more members of the genus, & to become average between them sections.