Habit: Metastelma stipitatum grows as a glabrous, climbing viney shrub to over 3 m in length. The vegetation tinged with a reddish-purple color and generally dichotomously branching. The leaves are oppositely arranged, to 3 cm, elliptic to lanceolate, with an entire margin and an acute to acuminate, often apiculate leaf apex. The vegetation produces a milky sap.
The complete, perfect, actinomorphic flowers are arranged in few flowered axillary cymes. The calyx has 5, unfused, sepals with triangular, ovate lobes with a reddish abaxial surface. The corolla has 5, puberulent/pubescent adaxially, reddish petals with lanceolate, acute lobes that have an abaxial red stripe. There are 5, unfused stamens. Within the flower there are 5, white, appendages (crown) that arise from the corolla. The superior ovary has 2 locules with many ovules. The fruit is a follicle at maturity.
Habitat: Metastelma stipitatum grows in disturbed coastal Dry Broadleaf Evergreen Formations – Forests/Shrublands (coppice).
Distribution: Metastelma stipitatum is endemic to the Lucayan Archipelago and is known to occur in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Photographs have been taken of it on San Salvador.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic usage: Metastelma stipitatum is not known to be used medicinally in the Bahamian Archipelago.