Wild Flowering Plants
Malpighiaceae
family Stigmaphyllon bannisterioides (Linnaeus) C. E. Anderson in Taxon 41(2): 328. 1992. . Bas.: Malpighia bannisterioides Linnaeus (1775). Syn.: Stigmaphyllon ovatum (Cavanilles) Niedenzu (1900). . Syn.: Brachypterys ovata (Cavanilles) Small (1910). Indigenous viny shrub of open fresh-water swamps, river deltas and ditches. Quite common in a small and diminishing habitat. Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados, Greater Antilles, Trinidad, Tobago, Mesoamerica, South America. |