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Amazonvine

Stigmaphyllon

Also called Amazon Vine

Amazonvine
Photo: Alexander S. T. Papadopulos, Martyn P. Powell, Franco Pupulin, Jorge Warner, Julie A. Hawkins, Nicolas Salamin, Lars Chi, CC BY 3.0
Family
Malpighiaceae (Malpighi family)

About

Stigmaphyllon is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Amazonvine is a common name for species in this genus.

Where it grows

Stigmaphyllon subg. Stigmaphyllon comprises 92 species of mostly twining woody vines or rarely shrubs native to the Neotropics from southern Mexico to northern Argentina, except Chile and the high Andes; 13 species occur in the West Indies. One species (S. bannisterioides) is also found in seashore vegetation along the Atlantic Coast from southern Mexico to northern Brazil, in the West Indies, and along the coast of western Africa (Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone).

Other Stigmaphyllon plants

Stigmaphyllon australiense · Stigmaphyllon ecuadorense · Stigmaphyllon eggersii · Stigmaphyllon nudiflorum · Stigmaphyllon timoriense

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stigmaphyllon by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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