Stictocardia

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.

• Family

  Convolvulaceae

• Scientific Name

  Stictocardia

• Description

  Description - Twining vines, glabrous or pubescent, usually with scarce milky latex. Leaves alternate, petiolate; blades simple, entire, punctate on the lower surface; stipules absent. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic. solitary or in simple dichasial cymes, axillary. Calyx of 5 subequal sepals; corolla infundibuliform; stamens 5. inserted, the anthers lanceolate; ovary superior, 2-locular, the style solitary, with two subglobose stigmas, not exserted. Fruits indehiscent, 4-locular, with fibrous walls, tardily dehiscent by the dissolution of the pericarp, covered by the accrescent sepals; seeds 4 per fruit, obtusely triangular, velvety. A Paleotropical genus of about 12 species.