Wightia is now tentatively positioned as a sister group to Phrymaceae due to many morphological similarities as well as support by chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA analysis. They are a small genus of two species in Southeast Asia, that can grow as a shrub or tree, or as hemiepiphetic pseud...
any Asiatic tree of the genusPaulownia,of the figwort family, esp.P. tomentosa,having showy clusters of flowers in early spring. [< New Latin (1835), after AnnaPavlovna,daughter of Paul I of Russia; see-ia] Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd...