Native to Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Jamaica, Middlesex, St Ann
18.234722, -77.127778
Location Remarks
Road to Hollymount.
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Santalales
Family
Balanophoraceae
Genus
Scybalium
Specific Epithet
jamaicense
Authorship
(Sw.) Schott & Endl.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Moderate
ED 17.5
Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
1.7
Global rank
#19,625 of 335,497
Top 6%
Extinction probability
10%