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Stigmaphyllon dichotomum

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Grisebach

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Pará
• Santa Caterina - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Floodplain
• riverside
• shrubland
• forest edge
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Sep

Tall woody vine or scandent shrub with tomentose branchlets & glabrate branches, to 10m. Mucronate leaves glabrescent above hoary beneath or smooth undivided or 3-lobed to 160mm x 140mm. Axillary or terminal corymbs or umbels with bracts to 2mm long & bractlets to 1mm long, of yellow flowers to 30mm diameter, green calyx, sepals to 3.5mm long, fimbriate denticulate yellow petals to 12mm. Green & red fruits, samaras to 40mm long.

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• Niedenzu
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF
• FOPE
• Standley
• HUA