Stigmaphyllon emarginatum (Cav.) A.Juss.

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Malpighiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Stigmaphyllon emarginatum (Cav.) A.Juss.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Twining liana to 15 m long; bark reddish brown, rough; stems usually numerous from base, twining together, forming a ropelike structure, nearly cylindrical, copper-colored, with numerous lenticels, strigillose when young. Leaf blades (1.1—)2.5—10(—13) x (0.5—)1—5.5(—10.5) cm, lanceolate, ovate, oblong, linear, or seldom rounded, coriaceous, with a few appressed hairs, especially on lower surface, becoming glabrous, the apex acute or obtuse, emarginate-mucronate, the base truncate to cordate, the margins entire; petioles 0.2-2 cm long, with a pair of disk-shaped glands below the blade. Rowers long-pedicellate, 15-25 in congested, axillary umbels or pseudoracemes; bracts minute, eglandular; pedicels 3-23 mm long, slender; calyx bearing 8-10 fleshy, elongate, greeb glands; petals bright yellow, rounded, 11-15 mm long, long- clawed; stamens unequal, the anthers glabrous or puberulent; anterior style shorter, the stigmas green. Samara wing 1.5 -2.2 cm long, reddish- tinged when young, strigillose, becoming glabrous with age.

    Distribution and Ecology - Common in dry open areas and coastal scrub. Dittlif Point (A3865), Salt Pond (A4042). Also on Anegada, St. Croix, St. Thomas, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda; Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico (including Culebra Island), and the Lesser Antilles, south to St. Lucia

  • Discussion

    Banisteria periplocifolia Desf. ex DC., Prodr. 1: 589. 1824. Stigmaphyllon periplocifolium (Desf. ex D C . ) A. Juss., A n n . Sci. Nat. Bot., ser. 2, 13: 290. 1840. Stigmaphyllon lingulatum (Poir.) Small, N . Amer. Fl. 25(2): 140. 1910.