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Stigmaphyllon ciliatum

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(Lamarck) A. Jussieu

Common Names

• Golden Vine
• Golden Creeper
• Butterfly Vine
• Amazon Climber
• Orchid Vine
• Brazilian Golden Vine
• Amazon Vine
• Brazilian Glory Vine

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bahia
• Espírito Santo
• Maranhão
• Minas Gerais
• Paraná
• Pernambuco
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• coastal
• seasonally inundated areas
• swamp
• shrubland
• mangrove scrub
• riverside
• coastal shrubland

Flowering Times

• Autumn Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• Jun
• Jul
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Dec

Evergreen twiner or twining subshrub with axillary or terminal umbels or racemes of 20mm golden yellow clawed flowers with sepals to 5mm long, fringed petals to 16mm, larger petals to 25mm long, fruit to 40mm x 20mm, a 3-4-winged samara in clusters of up to 6, glabrous or narly so leaves with long hairs on margins to 80mm long

Further References

• E & M 1970
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Llamas 2003
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• FB
• Niedenzu
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF