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|accepted_name=Heteropterys
|accepted_authority=Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Nov. Gen. Sp.
|place=5(fol.): 126; 5(qto.): 163; plate 450. 1822
|year=1822
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Banisteria
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Malpighiaceae;Heteropterys
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malpighiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Heteropterys]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek heteros, different, and pteron, wing, alluding to dorsal wing of samara being thickened on abaxial edge and bent upward, opposite of arrangement in other genera with dorsal-winged samaras
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 355, 356
|treatment_page=page 360
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Woody </b>vines [shrubs or small trees]. <b>Leaves</b> bearing glands on blade [and/or petiole, rarely eglandular]; stipules borne on [beside] base of petiole [absent], distinct. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal or both, umbels or corymbs [pseudoracemes], these single or grouped in racemes or panicles. <b>Pedicels</b> raised on peduncles [sessile]. <b>Flowers</b> all chasmogamous, 6+ mm diam., showy with visible petals, stamens, and styles; calyx glands 0 or 8 (sepals all eglandular or 4 lateral 2-glandular); corollas bilaterally symmetric, petals pink or pink and white [white, light yellow, bronze, or dark red], glabrous [rarely hairy]; stamens 10, all fertile; anthers ± alike; pistil 3-carpellate, carpels connate proximally in ovary; styles 3, cylindric; stigmas on internal angle [very rarely terminal], large. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, breaking into 3 samaras; samaras bearing 1 elongate dorsal wing [rarely rudimentary or absent] thickened on abaxial edge, veins bending toward thinner adaxial edge, and usually single or double crown of short, irregular lateral winglets [crests] on each side [winglets and crests absent]; nut wall thick, tough. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species 140+ (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Heteropterys</i> is almost exclusively a New World genus, with a single species in West Africa.</p>
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name=Heteropterys
|authority=Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Banisteria
|basionyms=
|family=Malpighiaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Nov. Gen. Sp.
|publication year=1822
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_788.xml
|genus=Heteropterys
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