Portlandia (genus)
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Portlandia is a genus of plant
in family Rubiaceae
endemic to Jamaica
. It contains the following species, among others:
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
in family Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...
endemic to Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
. It contains the following species, among others:
- Portlandia albifloraPortlandia albifloraPortlandia albiflora is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Jamaica.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
- Portlandia grandifloraPortlandia grandifloraPortlandia grandiflora is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Jamaica.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
- Portlandia harrisiiPortlandia harrisiiPortlandia harrisii is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Jamaica.-Source:* Kelly, D.L. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....
- Portlandia hexandra
- Portlandia speciosa