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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Stylisma
|accepted_authority=Rafinesque
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev.
|place=3: 101. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Stylisma
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Convolvulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Stylisma]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek stylos, pillar, and –skhísma, division, alluding to cleft style
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials.</b> Stems usually procumbent or trailing, rarely twining, glabrous or hairy, hairs 2-armed. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate or sessile; blade linear to oblong-elliptic, 10–80 mm, surfaces glabrous or hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2–7-flowered or flowers solitary. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals ovate-lanceolate to ovate, 4–11 mm; corolla usually white, sometimes lavender, maroon, pink, purple, or red, campanulate or funnelform, 8–25 mm, limb 5-angled or -lobed; styles 2, connate at base or nearly to tips; stigmas peltate. <b>Fruits</b> capsular or nutlike, dry, oblong-ovoid [ellipsoid, fusiform, turbinate], dehiscence valvate. <b>Seeds</b> 1(–4), ovoid [ellipsoid, fusiform, or globose], hairy. <b>x</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=c;se United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 6 (6 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades 10–18 mm; flowers: sepals 4–6 mm, corollas 8–13 mm.
|[[Stylisma abdita|Stylisma abdita]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades 20–80 mm; flowers: sepals 4–11 mm, corollas 10–25 mm.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Corollas lavender, maroon, pink, purple, or red; stamens: filaments glabrous or glabrate.
|[[Stylisma aquatica|Stylisma aquatica]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Corollas white; stamens: filaments usually hairy, at least proximally, rarely glabrous.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blades 10–30 mm wide; inflorescences usually 3–7-flowered, flowers rarely solitary.
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Sepals glabrous.
|[[Stylisma humistrata|Stylisma humistrata]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Sepals densely villous.
|[[Stylisma villosa|Stylisma villosa]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blades 0.1–8 mm wide; inflorescences: flowers usually solitary, sometimes 2–5-flowered.
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Leaf blades 0.1–3 mm wide; bracteoles 15–25 mm; style branches usually connate (1/2–)5/6+ length, sometimes less.
|[[Stylisma pickeringii|Stylisma pickeringii]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Leaf blades 2–8 mm wide; bracteoles 1–3(–5) mm; style branches connate only at base.
|[[Stylisma patens|Stylisma patens]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Stylisma
|author=Charles M. Allen
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Convolvulaceae
|distribution=c;se United States.
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev.
|publication year=1818
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=
|genus=Stylisma
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