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Stigmaphyllon puberum

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(Richard) A. Jussieu

Common Names

• Kalábuli (Dominica)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hspaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Seasonally inundated areas
• forests
• wet forests
• gallery forest
• riversides
• mangroves
• coastal
• rain forest
• forest edge
• coastal thickets

Flowering Times

• All year (Nicaragua)
• Apr-Aug (Dominica)

Fruiting Times

• All year (Nicaragua)

Woody twining liana or scandent shrub with glabrate branches. Leaves glabrous or sericeous above, sericeous beneath to 160mm x 90mm. 5-10 flowered axillary or terminal umbels with bracts & bractlets 1mm long of red, yellow & orange flowers to 20mm diameter 13mm long, sepals to 3.5mm long, fimbriate petals red outside & yellow within, larger petals to 11mm diameter. Samaras to 51mm long, wing to 30mm x 12mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• Niedenzu
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• NAF
• Smithsonian
• FOPE
• SAFIO
• Standley