Stephanotis

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Stephanotis floribunda3L. Marie.jpg |image_caption = ''Stephanotis floribunda'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Stephanotis |authority = Thouars, 1806 |type_species = ''Stephanotis thouarsii'' |type_species_authority = Brongn.<ref>lectotype designated by Bullock, Ind. Nom. Genericorum Card (1957)</ref> |synonyms = *''Chlorochlamys'' {{small|Miq. (1869)}} *''Dregea'' {{small|E.Mey. (1838), nom. cons.}} *''Isaura'' {{small|Comm. ex Poir. (1813), nom. superfl.}} *''Pterophora'' {{small|Harv. (1838)}} *''Pterygocarpus'' {{small|Hochst. (1843)}} *''Traunia'' {{small|K.Schum. (1895)}} *''Wattakaka'' {{small|Hassk. (1857)}} |synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30089192-2 ''Stephanotis'' Thouars]. ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 28 July 2023.</ref> }}

'''''Stephanotis''''' is a genus of flowering plants first described in 1806.<ref>Thouars, Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-. 1806. Genera Nova Madagascariensia 11.</ref> 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.<ref>Schatz, G. E., S. Andriambololonera, Andrianarivelo, M. W. Callmander, Faranirina, P. P. Lowry, P. B. Phillipson, Rabarimanarivo, J. I. Raharilala, Rajaonary, Rakotonirina, R. H. Ramananjanahary, B. Ramandimbisoa, A. Randrianasolo, N. Ravololomanana, Z.S. Rogers, C.M. Taylor & G. A. Wahlert. 2011. Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tropicos.org/Name/40005852|title=Tropicos|website=www.tropicos.org}}</ref>

''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 or more, but it is usually sold twined around a wire hoop. The heavily scented waxy flowers appear in summer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gflora.com/index.php?cmd=genus_body&genus_id=63|title=Stephanotis|website=www.gflora.com}}</ref>

The best known species is ''Stephanotis floribunda'' (Madagascar jasmine), which is cultivated as a tropical or hothouse ornamental, and whose flowers are a popular element in wedding bouquets.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stephanotis floribunda (Bride's Flower, Clustered Wax Flower, Hawaiian Wedding Flower, Madagascar Jasmine, Wax Flower) {{!}} North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox |url=https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/stephanotis-floribunda/ |access-date=2025-11-16 |website=plants.ces.ncsu.edu}}</ref>

The ''Stephanotis'' has grown in popularity over the past few years, along with some of the other spring flowering vines. It is known by a few different names such as "Madagascar jasmine" and "bridal veil".{{fact|date=July 2023}}

==Species== 15 species are accepted.<ref name = powo/> {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| # ''Stephanotis abyssinica'' {{small|(Hochst.) S.Reuss, Liede & Meve}} – tropical Africa # ''Stephanotis acuminata'' Brongn. – Madagascar # ''Stephanotis arabica'' {{small|(Decne.) S.Reuss, Liede & Meve}} – Yemen # ''Stephanotis brevisquama'' {{small|(Jum. & H.Perrier) S.Reuss, Liede & Meve}} – Madagascar # ''Stephanotis crinita'' {{small|(Oliv.) S.Reuss, Liede & Meve}} – tropical Africa # ''Stephanotis ernstmeyeri'' {{small|S.Reuss, Liede & Meve}} – southern Mozambique and South Africa # ''Stephanotis faulknerae'' {{small|(Bullock) S.Reuss, Liede & Meve}} – southeastern Kenya, northeastern Tanzania, and central Mozambique # ''Stephanotis floribunda'' {{small|Jacques}} – Madagascar # ''Stephanotis grandiflora'' Decne. – Madagascar # ''Stephanotis macrantha'' {{small|(Klotzsch) S.Reuss, Liede & Meve}} – Kenya to Mozambique and Namibia # ''Stephanotis rubicunda'' {{small|(K.Schum.) S.Reuss, Liede & Meve}} – Cameroon to Somalia, Mozambique, and Botswana # ''Stephanotis schimperi'' {{small|(Decne.) S.Reuss, Liede & Meve}} – Nigeria to Somalia and Tanzania, Angola, and the southwestern Arabian Peninsula # ''Stephanotis stelostigma'' {{small|(K.Schum.) S.Reuss, Liede & Meve}} – southern Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya # ''Stephanotis thouarsii'' Brongn. – Madagascar # ''Stephanotis volubilis'' (L.f.) S.Reuss, Liede & Meve – northeastern Pakistan to southern China and Java}}

;formerly included transferred to other genera ''(Jasminanthes, Marsdenia)'' {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| # ''Stephanotis chinensis'' now ''Marsdenia chinensis'' # ''Stephanotis chunii'' now ''Jasminanthes chunii'' # ''Stephanotis floribunda'' now ''Marsdenia floribunda'' # ''Stephanotis maingayi'' now ''Marsdenia maingayi'' # ''Stephanotis mucronata'' now ''Jasminanthes mucronata'' # ''Stephanotis nana'' now ''Marsdenia stenantha'' # ''Stephanotis pilosa'' now ''Jasminanthes pilosa'' # ''Stephanotis saxatilis'' now ''Jasminanthes saxatilis'' # ''Stephanotis yunnanensis'' now ''Marsdenia stenantha''}}

==See also== *''Dregea sinensis''

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Apocynaceae genera Category:Asclepiadoideae Category:Taxa named by Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars Category:Paleotropical flora