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frutescens

Taxon

Schaefferia frutescens Jacq.

Protologue Enum. Syst. Pl. 33. 1760 [Aug-Sep 1760] ; Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist. 259 (1763); Karst. Fl. Columb. i. 183BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Least Concern
Schaefferia frutescens, 72611B--FL. Fairchild Tropical Gard. 16 Jan 03. 053.jpg

Schaefferia frutescens, 72611B--FL. Fairchild Tropical Gard. 16 Jan 03. 053.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Schaefferia frutescens, 72611B--FL. Fairchild Tropical Gard. 16 Jan 03. 052.jpg

Schaefferia frutescens, 72611B--FL. Fairchild Tropical Gard. 16 Jan 03. 052.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Bahamas, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Windward Is. (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

72611B

January 16, 2003

Location

United States, Florida, Miami-Dade County (Coral Gables, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden)

25.676781, -80.272034

Location Remarks

10901 Old Cutler Rd., Coral Gables

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Celastrales

Family

Celastraceae

Genus

Schaefferia

Specific Epithet

frutescens

Authorship

Jacq.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 0.5

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Least Concern

IUCN Red List

EDGE score

0.0

Global rank

#320,533 of 335,497

Top 96%

Extinction probability

5%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →