Schoepfia multiflora

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Schoepfia multiflora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Santalales
Family: Schoepfiaceae
Genus: Schoepfia
Species:
S. multiflora
Binomial name
Schoepfia multiflora

Schoepfia multiflora is a species of flowering plant in the Schoepfiaceae family.[3] It is a smallish tree, growing six to eight metres tall, exceptionally to ten metres.[4] It is endemic to Jamaica,[1] where it grows on rocky limestone in the woodlands of the central region.[4]

Schoepfia multiflora was first described as a new species by Ignatz Urban in the 1907 volume of the Symbolae Antillanae.[5]

In the 1984 key by Hermann Otto Sleumer, Schoepfia multiflora, S. harrisii and S. vacciniifolia are the only American Schoepfia species which have some or all flowers possessing tiny pedicels - all other species have sessile flowers which sit directly on top of the short peduncles. S. harrisii is also a Jamaican endemic, whereas S. vacciniifolia is a species from Central America.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Schoepfia multiflora". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1998: e.T36036A9976466. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T36036A9976466.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Schoepfia multiflora". International Plant Names Index. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Schoepfia multiflora Urb.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 29 December 2021
  4. ^ a b c Sleumer, Hermann Otto (15 May 1984). "Olacaceae". Flora Neotropica Monographs. 38: 21, 22. JSTOR 4393778.
  5. ^ Urban, Ignatz (20 May 1907). "Olacaceae". Symbolae Antillanae, seu, Fundamenta florae Indiae Occidentalis (in German and Latin). 5 (2): 184, 185. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.144. Retrieved 29 December 2021.