Primulaceae
Jacquinia

Jacquinia keyensis Mez

First published in I.Urban, Symb. Antill. 2: 444 (1901)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Florida to Caribbean, Honduras. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Vernacular
WASH-WOOD
Morphology General Habit
A shrub or small tree up to 5 m tall or more, with smooth grey bark, the young branchlets minutely whitish-scurfy.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves alternate or crowded, oblong to obovate, mostly 2–5 cm long, often bullate-revolute, the apex obtuse or retuse, the very short petioles densely glandular-puberulous
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence equal in length to or usually longer than the leaves, the axis 2–8 cm long; bracteoles 0.5 mm long, blackish and bullate with a pale triangular apex; pedicels 5–8 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers fragrant; calyx ca. 2 mm long; corolla cream, the lobes 3–4 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit orange, 7–9 mm in diameter; seeds 2.5 mm long.
Distribution
Grand Cayman. Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, and Jamaica.
Ecology
In coastal scrub-lands and thickets.
[Cayman]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/153744444/181464194

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Neotropikey

    • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0