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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|image_caption = ''Stigmaphyllon'' flower
|taxon = Stigmaphyllon
|authority = [[A.Juss.]]
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = 113 species; see text
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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]]. '''Amazonvine''' is a common name for species in this genus.<ref>{{PLANTS|id=STIGM|taxon=Stigmaphyllon|accessdate=3 December 2015}}</ref>

==Distribution==
''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 Ocean|Atlantic Coast]] from southern [[Mexico]] to northern [[Brazil]], in the [[West Indies]], and along the coast of western [[Africa]] ([[Guinea Bissau]], [[Guinea]], [[Sierra Leone]]).

''Stigmaphyllon'' subg. ''Ryssopterys'' includes 21 species of woody vines of the [[Sunda Islands]] (except [[Borneo]] and [[Sumatra]]), [[New Guinea]], [[Queensland]] ([[Australia]]), [[New Caledonia]], [[Vanuatu]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Micronesia]], [[Palau]], and the [[Philippines]]; ''S. timoriense'' has also been recorded from [[Taiwan]] and the [[Ryukyu Islands]].

===Threatened species===
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.

==References==
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*Anderson, C. 1997. Monograph of ''Stigmaphyllon'' (Malpighiaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 51: 1–313.
*Anderson, C. 2000. ''Stigmaphyllon hispidum'' (Malpighiaceae), a new species from Bahia, Brazil. Novon 10(2): 107–109.
*Anderson, C. 2009. ''Stigmaphyllon lanceolatum'' (Malpighiaceae), a new species from Espírito Santo, Brazil. Harvard Papers in Botany 14: 193–196.
*Anderson, C. 2011. Revision of ''Ryssopterys'' and transfer to ''Stigmaphyllon'' (Malpighiaceae). Blumea 56: 73–104.

==External links==
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*[http://herbarium.lsa.umich.edu/malpigh/index.html Herbarium.umich.edu: Malpighiaceae — description, taxonomy, phylogeny, and nomenclature.]
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