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|accepted_name=Antigonon
|accepted_authority=Endlicher
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl.
|place=4: 310. 1837
|year=1837
}}
|common_names=Coralvine;Mexican creeper;corona de la reina;Confederate-vine
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae;Antigonon
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Antigonon]]</div></div>
|etymology=etymology uncertain; perhaps Greek anti- , against, and gony, knee, alluding to angled stems, or Greek anti- , in place of, and genus Polygonum, alluding to affinity
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 216, 218, 479, 480
|treatment_page=page 481
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines,</b> perennial [annual]; roots tuberous. <b>Stems</b> scandent, tendril-bearing, pubescent or glabrous; tendrils terminal and axillary, branched. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous or persistent, cauline, alternate, petiolate; ocrea usually deciduous, chartaceous; blade broadly ovate to deltate or truncate, margins entire, sometimes undulate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, often clustered near tips of stems, racemelike, pedunculate. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, (1–)2–5 per ocreate fascicle, base stipelike; perianth accrescent in fruit, pink to purple or, rarely, white or yellowish, campanulate, glabrous; tepals 5, connate proximally, petaloid, dimorphic, outer 3 broader than inner 2; stamens (7–)8(–9); filaments connate ca. 1/2 their length, forming staminal tube, adnate to perianth tube, glandular-pubescent; anthers yellow to reddish, ovate to elliptic; styles 3, recurved, distinct; stigmas reniform-capitate. <b>Achenes</b> included in membranous perianth, brown, unwinged, subglobose to bluntly 3-gonous proximally, 3-gonous distally, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Seeds</b>: embryo straight. <b>x</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|distribution=subtropical and tropical;s North America (including Mexico);West Indies;Central America;South America.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 6 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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name=Antigonon
|author=Craig C. Freeman
|authority=Endlicher
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=subtropical and tropical;s North America (including Mexico);West Indies;Central America;South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Pl.
|publication year=1837
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae
|genus=Antigonon
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