Jacquinia is a genus of
evergreenIn botany, an evergreen plant is a plant having leaves all year round. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage for part of the year....
shrubA shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall. A large number of plants can be either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing conditions they experience...
s and
treeA tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m to...
s in the family
TheophrastaceaeTheophrastaceae is a small family of flowering plants. In its traditional circumscription, the family consists of five genera and between 90-100 species of trees or shrubs, native to tropical regions of the Americas....
, native to
Central AmericaManagua
Guatemala City
San Salvador
San Pedro Sula
Panama City
San José, Costa Rica
Santa Ana, El Salvador
León
San Miguel|-|}...
and the
CaribbeanThe Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts...
.
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Jacquinia is a genus of
evergreenIn botany, an evergreen plant is a plant having leaves all year round. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage for part of the year....
shrubA shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall. A large number of plants can be either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing conditions they experience...
s and
treeA tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m to...
s in the family
TheophrastaceaeTheophrastaceae is a small family of flowering plants. In its traditional circumscription, the family consists of five genera and between 90-100 species of trees or shrubs, native to tropical regions of the Americas....
, native to
Central AmericaManagua
Guatemala City
San Salvador
San Pedro Sula
Panama City
San José, Costa Rica
Santa Ana, El Salvador
León
San Miguel|-|}...
and the
CaribbeanThe Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts...
.
The genus was established by Linnaeus in 1760 and named by him in honor of Jacquin.
There are about 86 species.
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- Jacquinia aciculata
- Jacquinia aculeata
- Jacquinia acunana
- Jacquinia albiflora
- Jacquinia angustifolia
- Jacquinia arborea
- Jacquinia arenicola
- Jacquinia aristata
- Jacquinia armillaris
- Jacquinia aurantiaca
- Jacquinia axillaris
- Jacquinia barbasco
- Jacquinia berteri
- Jacquinia berterii
- Jacquinia bissei
- Jacquinia brasiliensis
- Jacquinia brevifolia
- Jacquinia brunnescens
- Jacquinia caracasana
- Jacquinia clarendonensis
- Jacquinia comosa
- Jacquinia conzattii
- Jacquinia cuneata
- Jacquinia curtissii
- Jacquinia dichotoma
- Jacquinia donnell-smithii
- Jacquinia eggersii
- Jacquinia ferruginea
- Jacquinia flammea}
- Jacquinia frutescens
- Jacquinia geniculata
- Jacquinia gracilis
- Jacquinia incrustata
- Jacquinia indica
- Jacquinia keyensis
- Jacquinia leoflingii
- Jacquinia leptopoda
- Jacquinia liebmannii
- Jacquinia linearis
- Jacquinia lippoldii
- Jacquinia loeflingii
- Jacquinia longifolia
- Jacquinia macrantha
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Jacquinia macrocarpa
Jacquinia maisiana
Jacquinia mexicana
Jacquinia moana
Jacquinia montana
Jacquinia morenoana
Jacquinia mucronata
Jacquinia mucronulata
Jacquinia nemophila
Jacquinia nipensis
Jacquinia nitida
Jacquinia obovata
Jacquinia oligantha
Jacquinia ovalifolia
Jacquinia paludicola
Jacquinia panamensis
Jacquinia pauciflora
Jacquinia petiolata
Jacquinia polyphlebia
Jacquinia pringlei
Jacquinia proctorii
Jacquinia pubescens
Jacquinia pungensJacquinia pungens is a species of flowering plant in the family Theophrastaceae, native to southern Mexico. It is a shrub growing to 4 m tall, with lanceolate to oblong evergreen leaves 4-7 cm long, with a sharply pointed apex. The flowers are yellow, orange, or red, produced in tight...
Jacquinia racemosa
Jacquinia revoluta
Jacquinia robusta
Jacquinia roigii
Jacquinia ruscifolia
Jacquinia schiedeana
Jacquinia schippii
Jacquinia seleriana
Jacquinia sessiliflora
Jacquinia shaferi
Jacquinia smaragdina
Jacquinia sphaeroidea
Jacquinia sprucei
Jacquinia stenophylla
Jacquinia stenophylloides
Jacquinia submembranacea
Jacquinia umbellata
Jacquinia venosa
Jacquinia verticillaris
Jacquinia yunquensis |
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