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Jacquinia

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Jacquinia is a genus of evergreen shrubs and trees in the family Primulaceae, native to Central America and the Caribbean.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderEricales
  5. FamilyPrimulaceae
Native toAruba, Bahamas, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica
Observations recorded5,222

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
258
With media
73
Family
Primulaceae
Collections
IBUNAM, CICY, FC-UNAM, ECOSUR
Recorded in
Mexico, Belice, El Salvador, Honduras

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Theophrastoideae
Image
Jacquinia keyensis.jpg
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genus
taxon name
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Commons category
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Category:Jacquinia
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Encyclopedic overview

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Jacquinia is a genus of evergreen shrubs and trees in the family Primulaceae, native to Central America and the Caribbean.

The genus was established by Linnaeus in 1760 and named by him in honor of Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jacquinia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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