Orthographe : D'après Tropicos, genre féminin: " Type species treated by Miers as "Pleonotoma jasminiflora", the name is apparently arbitrarily formed and was treated as feminine by Miers, who thus established the gender (Art. 62.3)."

Type : Bignonia jasminifolia Kunth 1819 [≡ Pleonotoma jasminifolia (Kunth) Miers 1863] (Orénoque).