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Stigmaphyllon ellipticum

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(Kunth) A. Jussieu

Conservation Status

Endangered

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Bahia - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• forests
• secondary vegetation
• wet forest
• disturbed areas
• streamside thickets

Flowering Times

• All year (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nicaragua)

Large woody iana with glabrous stems & silky branchlets. Mucronate leaves glabrous or nearly so downy on nerves to 100mm x 70mm. 2-5 flowered terminal umbels or axillary corymbs with bracts & bractlets to 2mm long, of 40mm sulphur-yellow fimbriate flowers to 30mm wide, sepals to 4mm long, larger petals to 20mm long, claw to 3mm long. Brown samaras to 43mm long with coriaceous wing to 25mm x 7mm.,

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Neotrop
• Niedenzu
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF
• JAA
• FOPE