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Stephanotis
Stephanotis is a genus of flowering plants first described in 1806. The name derives from the Greek στεφανωτής (stephanōtís) meaning, by sense, “fit for a crown”—from στέφανος (stéphanos), “crown”. It contains evergreen, woody-stemmed lianas with a scattered distribution in several tropical and subtropical regions.
Stephanotis are grown for their strongly perfumed, waxy, tubular, usually white flowers. Leaves are opposite, ovate to elliptic, and leathery. Stephanotis is a beautiful but difficult plant - it hates sudden changes in temperature, needs constant cool conditions in winter and is attractive to scale and mealy bug. The stems of Stephanotis can reach 10 ft (3.0 m) or more, but it is usually sold twined around a wire hoop. The heavily scented waxy flowers appear in summer.
17 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Jukti
speciesStephanotis volubilis
Madagascar jasmine
speciesStephanotis floribunda
Stephanotis macrantha
speciesStephanotis macrantha
Stephanotis ernstmeyeri
speciesStephanotis ernstmeyeri
Stephanotis brevisquama
speciesStephanotis brevisquama
Stephanotis schimperi
speciesStephanotis schimperi
Stephanotis abyssinica
speciesStephanotis abyssinica
Stephanotis arabica
speciesStephanotis arabica
Stephanotis grandiflora
speciesStephanotis grandiflora
Stephanotis thouarsii
speciesStephanotis thouarsii
Stephanotis rubicunda
speciesStephanotis rubicunda
Stephanotis acuminata
speciesStephanotis acuminata
Stephanotis crinita
speciesStephanotis crinita
Stephanotis stelostigma
speciesStephanotis stelostigma
Stephanotis faulknerae
speciesStephanotis faulknerae
Stephanotis cuneifolia
speciesStephanotis cuneifolia
Stephanotis taynguyenensis
speciesStephanotis taynguyenensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 339916.