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 | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Santalales |
| Family: | Schoepfiaceae |
| Genus: | Schoepfia |
| Species: | S. multiflora |
| Binomial name | |
| Schoepfia multiflora | |
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
- 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.
- "Schoepfia multiflora". International Plant Names Index. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
- "Schoepfia multiflora Urb.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 29 December 2021
- Sleumer, Hermann Otto (15 May 1984). "Olacaceae". Flora Neotropica Monographs. 38: 21, 22. JSTOR 4393778.
- 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.