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'''''Stigmaphyllon''''' is a [[genus]] in the [[Malpighiaceae]], a [[family (biology)|family]] of about 75 genera of [[flowering plant]]s in the order [[Malpighiales]]. ''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]]).

Three species from Ecuador, ''Stigmaphyllon ecuadorense'' (erroneously listed as ''[[Stigmaphyllon ecudorense]]''), ''[[Stigmaphyllon eggersii]]'', and ''[[Stigmaphyllon nudiflorum]]'', are included in the 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

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Stigmaphyllon (Greek, stigma and leaf; referring to the leaf-like appendages of the stigmas). Sometimes written Stigmaphyllum. Malpighiaceae. Woody vines, grown in the warmhouse and also out-of-doors in the extreme South.

Leaves usually opposite, entire or denticulate, rarely lobed; petiole with 2 glands; stipules minute: fls. yellow, in umbel-like corymbs which are peduncled and axillary; calyx 5-parted, 8-glandular; petals clawed, unequal, glabrous, stamens 10, unequal, 6 perfect, 4 without anthers or deformed; ovary 3-celled, 3-lobed, dorsal lobe gibbous: samarae 1-3, extended above into a wing.—About 55 species, Trop. Amer.
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==Species==
*''[[Stigmaphyllon bonariense]]''
*''[[Stigmaphyllon ciliatum]]''

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==References==
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->

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