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|accepted_name=Hiptage
|accepted_authority=Gaertner
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fruct. Sem. Pl.
|place=2: 169, plate 116, fig. 4. 1790
|year=1790
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malpighiaceae;Hiptage
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malpighiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hiptage]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek hiptamai, to fly, alluding to wind-dispersed samaras
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 355, 356, 362
|treatment_page=page 361
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or woody vines. <b>Leaves</b> usually bearing glands at apex of petiole or on blade at base or distally, on or near margin; stipules interpetiolar, occasionally minute or apparently lacking. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal, usually elongate, occasionally condensed, racemes, these sometimes grouped in terminal panicles. <b>Pedicels</b> raised on peduncles. <b>Flowers</b> all chasmogamous, 6+ mm diam., showy with visible petals, stamens, and styles; calyx gland 1, decurrent, below posterior petal and between 2 adjacent sepals [2–10 (in 1–5 adjacent pairs), rarely 0]; corollas bilaterally symmetric, petals white or pink except posterior proximally yellow, distally white or pink [all white or pink], densely sericeous abaxially [in 1 species sparsely sericeous proximally], glabrous adaxially; stamens 10, all fertile; anther opposite anterior sepal largest, other 9 subequal; pistil 3-carpellate, carpels completely connate in ovary; style 1, on anterior carpel, tapered, curved toward posterior petal; stigma on internal angle or terminal but bent inward, small [large]. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, breaking into 3 samaras; samaras bearing 3 elongate lateral wings, 1 straddling plane of symmetry at apex of carpel, other 2 shorter, 1 on each side of plane of symmetry; dorsal wing usually absent, occasionally 1, much smaller than lateral wings; nut wall thick, tough.</span><!--

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|distribution=Florida;se Asia (India & Pakistan to Taiwan);w Pacific Islands (Indonesia;Philippines).
|discussion=<p>Species 25+ (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Hiptage
|author=
|authority=Gaertner
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malpighiaceae
|distribution=Florida;se Asia (India & Pakistan to Taiwan);w Pacific Islands (Indonesia;Philippines).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fruct. Sem. Pl.
|publication year=1790
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Hiptage
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