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|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
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--><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><!--

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|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>
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|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.
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==Key==
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|-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]]
|}
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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=
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|genus=Jacquinia
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