View source for Jacquinia ← Jacquinia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Jacquinia |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Fl. Jamaic., |place=27. 1759 (as Jaquinia), name and orthography conserved , }} |common_names=Cudjoe-wood |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Theophrastaceae;Jacquinia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Theophrastaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Jacquinia]]</div></div> |etymology=For Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin, 1727–1817, Austrian botanist |volume=Volume 8 |mention_page=page 251, 252 |treatment_page=page 253 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, resin canals absent. <b>Stems</b> erect, much-branched; young branches lepidote, hairs irregularly branched, thick-walled. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, sometimes pseudoverticillate; blade oblong-obovate to spatulate, base attenuate, margins entire, apex obtuse to rounded or retuse, mucronate or mucro absent, surfaces glabrous, punctate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal [axillary] racemes, 4–30(–40)-flowered, pedunculate. <b>Pedicels</b> present, bracteate. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals distinct; corolla white or cream, darkening to yellow with age, salverform or short-campanulate, lobes shorter to longer than tube, apex rounded to acute; stamens borne at base of corolla tube; filaments distinct; anthers at first aggregated around stigma and style, later spreading; staminodes borne at apex of corolla tube, petaloid; stigma capitate, lobed. <b>Berries</b> orange-red or red, ovoid or globose, apex apiculate. <b>Seeds</b> 2–8, brown or light brown, oblong to elliptic, subglobose, alveolate, completely covered by placental tissue. <b>x</b> = 18.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America. |discussion=<p>Species 13 (2 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p><i>Bonellia</i>, with a total of 22 species, was until recently included in <i>Jacquinia</i>. We follow B. Ståhl and M. Källersjö (2004) in treating them separately here.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=stahl1995a |text=Ståhl, B. 1995. A synopsis of Jacquinia (Theophrastaceae) in the Antilles and South America. Nordic J. Bot. 15: 493–511. }} }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Leaves alternate or indistinctly pseudoverticillate, blade 1-4.5 × 0.5-2.5 cm, petiole puberulous-lepidote. |[[Jacquinia keyensis|Jacquinia keyensis]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Leaves usually distinctly pseudoverticillate, blade 3-8(-12) × 1.5-5 cm, petiole glabrous or sparsely puberulous. |[[Jacquinia arborea|Jacquinia arborea]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Jacquinia |author=R. David Whetstone;Richard P. Wunderlin |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Theophrastaceae |illustrator=Barbara Alongi |illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association |distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America. |reference=stahl1995a |publication title=Fl. Jamaic., |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_520.xml |genus=Jacquinia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Theophrastaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Theophrastaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Jacquinia.