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Stigmaphyllon floribundum

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(de Candolle) C.E. Anderson

Common Names

• Bejuco de Toro
• Bejuco de Menta
• Bull Wiss
• Red Wiss

Geographical Habitats

• Leeward Islands
• Martinique
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• rocky bank in full sun
• coastal
• scrub forest
• thickets
• shrubs
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Sporadically (Puerto Rico)

Woody twining liana with axillary or terminal corymbs or panicles to 220mm long of 26mm diameter yellow flowers, sepals to 3mm long, larger petals to 12mm long, 15mm long, young leaves tomentous, coriaceous mucronate leaves glabrous or sparsely pubescent above, densely pubescent beneath to 150mm long, winged strigose mericarps to 32mm long

Further References

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