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Stigmaphyllon emarginatum

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(Cavanilles) A. Jussieu

Common Names

• Golden Vine
• Bejuco de San Juan
• Corne de Cabri (Haiti)

Geographical Habitats

• Cuba
• French Guiana
• Guadeloupe
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• thickets
• disturbed areas
• coastal forest
• montane areas
• forest

Flowering Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Aug (Puerto Rico)

Evergreen woody twining glabrate vine or shrub to 4m, stems with lenticels. Glabrescent coriaceous mucronate leaves downy or glabrous beneath to 140mm long. Axillary & terminal umbels, corymbs or 6-14 flowered racemes of 28mm diameter yellow flowers with bracts to 2mm & bracteoles to 1mm, sepals to 4.5mm long, yellow petals, larger petals to 16mm long. Reddish-brown hairy fruit samaras to 25mm x 9mm.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• Bodkin
• Niedenzu
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• NAF
• SAFIO