Stegolepis is a group of plants in the family Rapateaceae described as a genus in 1872 .Körnicke, Friedrich August. 1872. Linnaea 37: 480-482 in LatinTropicos, Stegolepis Klotzsch ex Körn.
The genus is endemic to northeastern South America, primarily southern Venezuela.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesFunk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584Maguire, Bassett. 1965. Stegolepis. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 12(3): 69-89
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